Fedora 9 Released

dodger

Just released the new version of Fedora

Matt

I've been downloading it for about an hour now from the torrents available.

I've had the beta running for a couple of weeks, and it worked a treat to start with, but they released a new kernel, which didn't support the wireless drivers I had installed for my network card. Hopefully the full release on will do.

dodger

I'm definately going to download this tonight and install it, i'm loving Ubuntu on my old laptop, everything just works. Like like you said though i did try Fedora 8 on the laptop but the wireless card didn't work. Lets hope they have included the drivers.

Are you downloading the 3.6G DVD version?

Matt

No mate, I'm downloading the 64bit version for my laptop.

Fedora 8 is really easy to get the wireless card working. I made some notes when I got mine working.

Download the firmware for the card

wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2

untar the package

tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2

Install the driver

/usr/bin/b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ /home/Matt/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o

Probably easiest then to restart the machine to let the system load the firmware into your card and NetworkManager, on the top Gnome panel in the notification area to the right, should have a list of wireless access points to connect to.

If NM doesn't show it may need to be started.

NM will ask you for your WEP passphrase, be careful to specify if you are telling it hexadecimal WEP or the plain text phrase.

Keyring will then offer to store that passphrase and keep it secure with a password. What password you specify is up to you, but you will be asked for it each time you connect rather than the actual WEP key.

dodger

I did try and get it working but being a Linux newbie i got frustrated with it, so i went back to Ubuntu which worked without me doing anything.

Matt

lol, to be fair, Ubuntu had mine working straight out of the box as well

dodger

I'm keen to try Fedora again though, seems to have some really cool features in this new version.

Matt

Well, just gone to check on my download, and the bloody HDD is full! Had to start again

Matt

Finally fully installed and working

dodger

nice one Matt, any problems with the install?

Matt

dodger said:
nice one Matt, any problems with the install?

Nope, none what so ever. Wireless card was really easy to get working, just needed cut the firmware for the wireless card, and had to wait a couple of days after install for someone to re-make the nvidia drivers to work with the new kernel.....which they have done. You just need to install a different reposiroty and install them from there.

Matt

Got this running on the Desktop PC as well. Install went the same as the Laptop, only problem I've got with the desktop is it's not detecting the Audiology Sound Card. Will have a play about with this when I can be arsed

Matt

Got all my USB drives working as well

[root@desktop media]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       38G  3.6G   33G  10% /
/dev/sda2             190M   19M  162M  11% /boot
tmpfs                 506M   72K  506M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1             2.0G  1.6G  385M  81% /media/GIZMO
/dev/sdd1             815G  416M  814G   1% /media/Backup
/dev/sde1             233G   21G  213G   9% /media/Videos
/dev/sdd2             118G   26G   92G  23% /media/Photos

I've not got it to mount the other NTFS drives by default. It can see them, they just get mounted when I need to access anything on them

Matt

Just tried getting Fedora 10 to work on my laptop.....6 hours later I'm back on Fedora 9. What a pain in the arse. I can't get it to even recognise the graphics card, so all I get is command line (when it eventually boots).