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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...

How to Install VLC On fedora 8, 13 , 15

How to install VLC on Fedora X Y Z Some of you who recently switched to linux or who are planning to switch to linux, are may be looking for a good media player which will play every thing on Linux, or looking for how to install VLC, This post is a step to step guide about installing VLC on Fedora 12/13/14 So, just follow the steps or copy – paste them to install vlc on your machine. It does not matter what architecture you are using –...

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...

How to secure your data in 11 easy steps!

Truecrypt, is a free and open-source disk encryption software. In this post we will show you how to encrypt all your data using Truecrypt in 11 easy steps.     With Truecrypt it is possible to encrypt a virtual disk (folder), a partition or a whole storage device. The two most beautiful things with Truecrypt are real-time instantaneous encryption and simple and easy setup. Probably you might ask yourself why you need it?! T...

How to Mount NTFS Partition on RHEL 5

this guide is to provide step by step guide, ow to mount partition with NTFS file system on the Linux operating system. This article consists of two parts: * mount NTFS file system read only access * mount NTFS file system with read write access 1. Mount NTFS file system with read only access 1.1. NTFS kernel support First verify if we have NTFS modules installed on our system. Check for NTFS kernel support ls /lib/modules/2.6....