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Wireless (broadcom-wl) not working in fedora 13 for Dell 1545
Fedora 13 does have support for Broadcom wireless drivers On Dell laptop, but it didn’t really work out on a friend’s laptop. Finally we got it working and I thought I’ll just note the steps down. Below are the three easy steps you need to take to make it work properly. Install the RPM Fusion repos... http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration Install the akmod version of the 64-bit driver... su yum install akmod-wl Rebo...
Fedora 15 Post Installation Guide
Fedora 15, codename Lovelock, is available for download for a few days now, and it comes with a lot of new features. And first of all it comes with the new Gnome 3, the next generation of Gnome which is completely redesigned! If you haven't done already download Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora, install it and let's continue with the post installation guide to configure some basic stuff for Fedora. 1. Configure sudo * Modifyin...
Swap space in Linux
Linux uses swap space as “extra” memory for pages of application memory that are not being actively used by the application but have been modified .The swap space size plus RAM size is the total amount of virtual memory for the system. When most of the system’s real memory is in use, and there is a need for more,some data will be moved into swap to free real RAM memory for use by applications or for kernel use, such as for driver buffers...
How to Creating a New Partition in Linux
In most Linux systems, you can use the fdisk utility to create a new partition and to do other disk management operations. Note: To be able to execute the commands necessary to create a new partition on Linux, you must have the root privileges. As a tool with a text interface, fdisk requires typing the commands on the fdisk command line. The following fdisk commands may be helpful: Options Description m Displays the av...
List of Important files and Directories in Linux (Redhat,Centos,Fedora)
These are the important files in Linux, which is mostly used to configure the Linux System. /boot/vmlinuz – the typical location and name of the Linux kernel. /dev/hda – first IDE hard drive /dev/null – used when you want to send output into oblivion /etc/aliases – file containing aliases used by sendmail and other MTAs (mail transport agents). After updating this file, it is necessary to run the newaliases utility for t...
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