[andywarhol]

1. changing the resolution in linux: i change it then i get a popup window that says it is changed but wont take effect until i restart the x server.......? what does this mean? i've rebooted but no changes happened....

2. how do i make it so i can use the touchpad on my laptop? right now all that works is with a mouse plugged in......


3. how do i set up the internet with linux? is there anythign special i gotta do?

[lynch]

Originally Posted by andywarhol

1. changing the resolution in linux: i change it then i get a popup window that says it is changed but wont take effect until i restart the x server.......? what does this mean? i've rebooted but no changes happened....

Hit the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace keys combo. Login again.

2. how do i make it so i can use the touchpad on my laptop? right now all that works is with a mouse plugged in......

What make and model of laptop?

3. how do i set up the internet with linux? is there anythign special i gotta do?

Depends on what type of connection you have, hardware used to connect (modem, nic, etc). What distribution of Linux?
lynch

[andywarhol]

computer: dell inspiron 5100.....laptop 15 inch
os: Red Hat 9 kernel 2.4.20-8


i cant get the touchpad to work, the display the change resolution, or anythign really......................all it says when i change resolution is restart the x server and log back in for it to take into effect the new changes.......it doesnt work.....

[andywarhol]

i will be wanting to hook up via dsl modem, and on top of that a wireless connection.....however someone said that was hard to do on linux (if ur a newbie) so maybe not that.......how bout just plugging into my router, what would that entail?

[andywarhol]

one more thing! i think im gonna download fedora core......but all those mirror sites and stuff, i dont understand what i should be downloading, cuz each folder just opens into aonther one, could u explain how i would do it from http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ ?

[brendandonhu]

What version is the wireless card?

[johnny_frog]

From the Red Hat site...

"Downloading the ISO Images
The ISO images are located at the following URL:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...re/3/i386/iso/ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu.../3/x86_64/iso/

To install from a DVD that you plan to burn, download the following ISO image files:
For x86-compatible (32-bit): FC3-i386-DVD.iso (md5sum: ca49964739f84848ca78fc03662272fb)
For x86_64 (64-bit AMD64, EM64T):
FC3-x86_64-DVD.iso (md5sum: 2786a751df919f340d967a4833b63b16)
Note: If you are using HTTP or FTP to download, some download clients cannot handle the DVD image because it is larger than 4 gigabytes. Please refer to the documentation of your download client for details.

If you plan to burn CDs, to download the CD images:

For x86-compatible (32-bit):
FC3-i386-disc1.iso (md5sum: db8c7254beeb4f6b891d1ed3f689b412)
FC3-i386-disc2.iso (md5sum: 2c11674cf429fe570445afd9d5ff564e)
FC3-i386-disc3.iso (md5sum: f88f6ab5947ca41f3cf31db04487279b)
FC3-i386-disc4.iso (md5sum: 6331c00aa3e8c088cc365eeb7ef230ea)

For x86_64 (64-bit AMD64, EM64T):
FC3-x86_64-disc1.iso (md5sum: b61b0eb7e0171837aeeff4f0054a4d79)
FC3-x86_64-disc2.iso (md5sum: 99dc12c7e8a93844a48a5675a9c07ec9)
FC3-x86_64-disc3.iso (md5sum: 399b7ffd721ebb4244a02c34cdbb1b82)
FC3-x86_64-disc4.iso (md5sum: f58b1de3b880df55dbbd37d143419226) "

[andywarhol]

the linksys wireless g adapter with linksys wireless-g broadband router.....................

[brendandonhu]

We need a model number here....Linksys makes lots of different wireless g adapters.

[andywarhol]

notebook adapter: wpc54g

[brendandonhu]

You can use that card with NDISWrapper
Make sure you read thruogh the instructions though, its pretty tricky to set up.