Hi Stephanie, Start with redirecting where yum "looks" for repositories, meaning sites where software which yum recognizes as available for download for YDL. Getting the right software installed will get your network up and running faster.
Here's the link: http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3017 I messed up my install of YDL such that it's fine for programming, but not much else unfortunately. However, there exists another link which could be helpful to you which addresses wicd. See here: http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7236&p=37327 By the way, remember to extract the Airport Extreme (AE) firmware from OS X! Although yum can help you acquire the tools to do the extraction of AE firmware you also need to check to see if you have AE installed on your laptop at all. Remember Airport Extreme is not the same as the standard Airport card Apple installed in that era. So if AE isn't present, the whole effort is useless. You might be better off looking for a wireless card to fit into the PCMCIA card. See more here: http://www.ydl.net/support/solutions/ydl_general/pcmcia-nic.shtml Of course, if you do have AE proceed with the instructions here: http://www.ydl.net/support/solutions/ydl_6.x/airport-extreme.shtml Good Luck, Derick. On 9/25/11 8:23 PM, Stephanie Loup wrote: > I am a new Yellow Dog Linux user, and am having a hard time getting my > computer to recognize my wireless network. I went to applications -> > internet -> wicd network manager, but it will not recognize our > wireless network, or any network in our neighborhood, for that > matter. But the internet does work connected through our ethernet > cable. > > I have a very old ibook and tried one of the troubleshooting hints to > install firmware, but the command > yum groupinstall "Development Tools" > was rejected as an error. > > Any tips? I'm feeling very frustrated! > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - yellowdog-general@lists.fixstars.com > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
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