FC3 on a Dell Latitude D820 / Network

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:51 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rex Dieter
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 11:49 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: FC3 on a Dell Latitude D820 / Network
> 
> Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know a quick and dirty way to get the onboard nic working?
> 
> upgrade to FC5/6? :)
> 
> -- Rex
> 
> I know, I know but no can do.  Our software is FC3 on for the moment
> (I'm working on it).

Looking at Dell's website, it's unclear what the wired NIC is.  They use
the euphemistic "10/100/1000 Gigabit" description, which is almost
useless.

The wireless is EITHER an Intell PRO 3945A/G OR the Dell 1490.  I don't
think FC3 (or FC5 for that matter) has drivers for those.  You probably
need to use the Windows drivers under ndiswrapper.  See

	http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

for details on that.  As to the wired NIC, do an "lspci -v" and see what
ethernet controllers you have.  We can advise you better that way.

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