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. > > >