how to connect wireless in Fedora8 AMD/Opteron

[James G. Sack (jim)]

Néstor wrote:
> I do have HAL:
> Name   : hal
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 0.5.8.1
> Release: 6.fc6
> 
> I have NetworkManager:
> Installed Packages
> Name   : NetworkManager
> Arch   : i386
> Epoch  : 1
> Version: 0.6.4
> Release: 5.fc6
> 
> Now, this machine is an Opteron 64 bits, I see this packages are i386 arch,
> should I point my yum repository to somewhere else and update my packages?
> 
> The machine did an automatic update and now when I do the 'lspci' commandI
> do get to see 'wlan0'.  I am getting closer.

I bet you have got a 32-bit installation on your 64-bit opteron.

Run
 uname -a
and see if the kernel is i386 (or maybe i686) or x86_64

The 32-bit one is fine, and may be a better choice for avoiding some
headaches in things like flash plugins -- but that's another thread.

This is fedora core 6, eh? You might try searching on
  rtl8187 fedora core 6

It's possible later distros may have better support? If you want to
experiment without an install, the live-CDs are kinda neat. Try F7/F8,
or ubuntu (u7.10 maybe).

Regards,
..jim