Adobe, Nvidia, Wi-fi, using Fedora 11. HELP!!!

[Silvers24]

I am tired of using google, I have been at this 3 days, with mutliple reinstalls of Fedora (Used 5, upgraded to Live FC 11, now using a full version of FC 11, DO NOT WANT TO REDO. )

So please, anyone using Fedora 11. Step by step of how to do the following:
Install Adobe Flash and get it to ACTUALLY WORK.
How to install Nvidia Drivers, since Nvidia has them for linux.
How to use my damn WUSB300N (Linksys Wireless)

If I can get help with just this, i'd marry you.

I am really trying with Linux, but this is just BS...


Oh and maybe a nice place to go on how to setup a full Web Server.
(Though I can eventually find this myself)

My Linux is 100% updated, and stuff.

[shadowpr]

Have you considered an alternative distro like ubuntu or mint. They generally have nvidia drivers ready to work, and i've had no problems with flash at all.

[Silvers24]

Yes, but I don't know about them as far as how are they with Servers? And such.
Also I have more material (books) on fedora then those. (Nothing for the others)
Of course even using the books is a huge migraine.

[kilgoretrout]

Check out this guide:

http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/161/26/2/3/

It will walk you through how to setup the third party repos that will give you adobe and the nvidia drivers(rpm fusion). It's pretty straightforward once you know where to look.

As for your wireless, post what type of wireless card you have.

[Silvers24]

to Kilgoretrout, thank you for the link.
But I do question, did you read my entire first post? The first thing I mention is what wireless card I have. (When I go to mention it that is)

Anyway I had it working for me, till I did something and somehow messed up the boot of Fedora.

[Detonate]

Fedora is a great distro. Cutting edge stuff there. Not the distro I would recommend to a Linux newcomer. They have a great forum:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/?

[toomyg]

I have Linux mint 7 and I didn't have to mess with anything for my video drivers and I have a Gforce 6150se and it even installed my Logitech cam without me messing with anything. I know this isnt really an answer to your post but I my self am new to Linux and it amazed me on how Linux Mint 7 installed everything I had connected to my PC and that's an AMD dual core 3. Ghz what ever bla bla bla I'm sure you know what I mean.

[Silvers24]

I'm actually good, I have only one problem left. (as I have figured out everything else)


How In the Heck Do I Install My Wireless Card?
Like I have said, i've googled my ass off, all I keep running into is ndiswrapper, and this WUSB300N.tar file from a ATV website.
But no info on how to use it, or the .tar

[Detonate]

Once you have downloaded the tar file, you should be able to right click on it and open it with your archive manager. Inside the file, once you extract it, there should be a text file with the installation instructions.

[kilgoretrout]

Ndiswrapper is an application that allows you to use windows drivers for wireless cards in linux. If you have ndiswrapper installed in fedora 11, you have to get the right files from the windows driver for ndiswrapper to use. Ndiswrapper will install the windows driver from those files. That's probably what's in the tar file. A tar file is just an archive like a zip file in windows. Just extract it by right clicking on the file and select "Extract here".

However, I'm more puzzled by your comment that you had the card working for a while and then it quit on you. Exactly what happened? Also, open a console, and run:

$ su
[enter root password]
# iwconfig

That will tell you if you have any active wireless interfaces that your system recognizes. Post the output here if you get any.

[Silvers24]

I never once had this card working. Never.

[Silvers24@www ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@www ~]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions.

In the tar file, there is two .sys files, one .inf and a .cat, none of those do anything.
And even if they could, obviously my card is not detected.

[kilgoretrout]

Those are the windows driver files. You normally install the inf file. Open a console and navigate to the directory where that inf file is located. Then su to root and run:

# ndiswrapper -i netmw245.inf

That installs the driver. To make sure the installation went OK run:

# ndiswrapper -l

That should list the netwm driver for your device. Next load the driver with the modprobe command like so:

# modprobe ndiswrapper

Then plug in your usb dongle and rerun:

# iwconfig

And see if a wireless interface is detected.

[Silvers24]

I have a weird feeling it didn't.

[root@www ~]# cd /home/Silvers24/Desktop/Drivers
[root@www Drivers]# ndiswrapper -i netmw245.inf
installing netmw245 ...
[root@www Drivers]# ndiswrapper -l
netmw245 : driver installed
[root@www Drivers]# modprobe ndiswrapper
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
[root@www Drivers]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions.

You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@www Drivers]#

[kilgoretrout]

It installed alright; it's just not working for some reason. Are you running 32 bit or 64 bit? Also are you running a stock or custom kernel?

Just to make sure, run as root:

# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper

which will tell you if the ndiswrapper module loaded.

Also run:

$ uname -a

and:

$ rpm -qa | grep ndiswrapper

That will give the kernel version and the version of ndiswrapper that you have installed.

Finally, remove the usb dongle and reinsert it. Then run:

$ dmesg | tail

That will tell you what kernel messages are being given when you insert the dongle.

Post the output here and I'll try and help you further.

[Detonate]

Could you also run:
ifconfig -a

This will list all devices, even those that are not active.

[Silvers24]

[Silvers24@www ~]$ su - Password: [root@www ~]# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper [root@www ~]# uname -a Linux www.silvers24.com 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 16 23:23:21 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@www ~]# rpm -qa | grep ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-1.54-20.fc11.x86_64 ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.29.5-191.fc11-1.54-20.fc11.x86_64 [root@www ~]# dmesg | tail usb 1-7: Product: Wireless-N USB network adapter v1021 usb 1-7: Manufacturer: MARVELL usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 1-7: USB disconnect, address 5 usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=13b1, idProduct=0029 usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 1-7: Product: Wireless-N USB network adapter v1021 usb 1-7: Manufacturer: MARVELL usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@www ~]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:7D:BF:66:04 inet addr:192.168.1.244 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21d:7dff:febf:6604/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:608 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:640 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:478870 (467.6 KiB) TX bytes:94732 (92.5 KiB) Interrupt:27 Base address:0xa000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4516 (4.4 KiB) TX bytes:4516 (4.4 KiB) pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 32:29:2C:58:833 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) [root@www ~]#

There ya go guys.

[kilgoretrout]

You apparently got no output when you ran:

# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper

which would indicate ndiswrapper didn't load. Try running:

$ su -
[root password]
# modprobe ndiswrapper

If the above command gives an error message of any kind, copy and past it in full here. Also, rerun:

# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper

It should ouput a line with ndiswrapper in it if the module loaded with the modprobe command.