Fedora 8 on laptop lenovo T61P
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Wed Jan 9 13:58:50 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 07:24 +0100, Francois wrote:
> On mardi 8 janvier 2008, Chris Snell wrote:
> > > Is there a way to install F8 on it? Thanks. Francois
> >
> > Install in text mode, then use the nvidia packages from the livna repo.
> >
> > More specific help here:
> > http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_8_on_a_ThinkPad_T61p
>
> OK, I did what I found on the wiki, except the part about Mouse, as I do not
> have a pb with it.
> Now everything works like a charm, except one very important thing :
> wifi ;-(
> Now when I boot, I have a message like that : "error for wireless
> request "set mode (8B06)". Set failed on device wlan0. invalid argument.
>
> I have that message since I've updated the packages. When I just installed
> F8 from the DVD, I didn't get that warning, but the wifi didn't work
> though.
> The little led that shows that wifi is activated is off.
> Thank you for your help. Francois
What kind of wireless card?
Silly thing to check: Is the switch on the front lip of the case set to
"on"?
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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