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

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