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Any other Fedora users?

#1 User is offline   TheNameless 

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Posted 17 June 2007 - 05:44 PM

So yeah, with the whole Microsoft/Novell dispute, I switched to Fedora Core 6. Loved it. Now that Fedora 7 is out, I'm even more in love.It detected everything out of the box: Printer, sound card, video card.But, the deadly issue of... Wireless!I know many Ubuntu users love the idea of everything working out of the box, but us Fedora users are either hit or miss: iwlwifi works or it doesn't.For me, my system slowed to a halt. After a minute of dumbness, I switched off my wireless, and put the wired cord from my router to my laptop. What I then had to do was do pure command line coding: download the ipw3945 driver, and install it myself.Lucky for me I did research ahead of time, and knew that this would work with Fedora, seeing as Intel always has been known to be pretty good at testing drivers.Be wary that I had to reconfigure and reinstall the driver after the first Fedora 7 kernel update, as will everyone who uses the ipw3945A/B/G (unfortunately, but it's the price we pay).So yeah, now it's working beautifully, I get wireless reception from the farthest room easily, and it's a Godsend.Anyone else have Fedora and pleased with it?
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Posted 17 July 2007 - 06:12 PM

Yes, I upgraded to F7 and am pleased. Although I don't use wireless. If i do with our other computer I was going to hard wire anyway. I just started using linux two months ago and am wondering what took me so long. I guess I was in a windoz trance. BUT, now i have extra money! I love FREE.
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