I spent Sunday afternoon installing and setting up Fedora! After installing I tried to connect to my wireless network but network manager applet keep saying that the connection had been disrupted. I knew I had a good signal and that my wireless card worked with Ubuntu so I should work with most distributions. But I also knew that Ubuntu was Debian based and Fedora was Red Hat based so it wouldn't surprise me if it did not work. after some quick Googleing I found out that all I had to do is tell the network manager the MAC address of my card. Here is how you do that:
1. Right click the Network Manager applet in the GNOME Panel and select 'Edit Connections'
2. Open a terminal window from Applications> System Tools>Terminal
3. In the terminal window type "/sbin/ifconfig" The outputted data is your networking card information. eth0 is Ethernet, wlan0 is your wireless card and HWaddr is you MAC address.
4. Back in the Network connections windows, select the Wired Tab, click add then copy the numbers after the word 'HWaddr' in to the 'MAC address'. Then Click OK.
5. For Wireless Internet, click the Wireless tab, then copy the 'HWaddr' from the wlan0 part of the terminal output, to the 'MAC address' and click OK.
You should now be connected to the Internet! If you are using wireless Internet and are not connected, then left-click the network manager applet and see if their are any networks to connect to. If there are then select it and now you should be connected!
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