On Mon, 21 May 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hi,
> This is about 3 or 4 questions in one, so I'm going to start at the top
> and see if we can get this figured out together.
>
> It sounds like the first and main problem is that your wireless isn't
> recognized.
> Do you know what type of wireless it is?
> If not, can you send the output of
>   lspci
>
> Just so you know, Fermi Linux (Scientific Linux Fermi) uses the
> Scientific Linux packages, except for Fermi's custom ones.  Fermi
> doesn't customize anything dealing with compilers, so any Scientific
> Linux packges should work with the Fermi Linux of the same release (ie
> SL 4.4 pacakges work in Fermi Linux 4.4)
>
> Troy
>
> Teilhard Knight wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I recently installed Fermi Linux AMD64, and it didn't recognize my
>> wireless nic. I have hopes to be able to have wireless Internet in this
>> OS, and I have the right module and the firmware that would make it
>> work. Problem is that I do not know what I need to install to be able to
>> compile the module. I tried as the installation stands and I cannot
>> compile. Also, I would be interested in knowing whether the Scientific

I suspect you did not install the compilers .

>> Linux packages are good for Fermi Linux, or where to download the

Why do you want to build on Scientific Linux and run on Fermi Linux?

>> necessary packages to be able to compile. I tried to install Scientific
>> Linux 5.0 i386, but the installer doesn't go further on than choosing
>> the language of the installation, on choosing the keyboard outline, the
>> installation freezes. Thanks for your help.

What hardware do you have?

-Connie Sieh

>>
>> Teilhard.
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