i installed core 2 on my laptop and compled a 2.66 kernal with all the acpi drivers and drivers for my prism card folowing the directions on what to include here the kernal works even thoughthere was several warnings during the compile. everything seems to work with the new kernal but i need to know how to get the battery status and how to set up and use my wifi card.


thanks in advance

does anyone know how to do this?

I don't know about the battery dealie, but I got wireless working with Fedora Core 1 using the ndiswrapper found at the Source Forge web site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/). You mat find that your wireless card is already supported by Linux and that you simply set it up as a new network connection by going to "System settings | Network" in the main menu panel. I am not sure if the ndiswrapper software works with FC2. You can also try the Linuxant driverloader (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader.../downloads.php). Good luck.

In case this helps, battery indicators show up when i run KDE desktop enviro as opposed to GNOME. So, try that and if you were not overly attached to GNOME just stick w/ KDE.
About the wireless, i am away from my network at the moment but i just got promising results from a little thing called linux-wlan-ng. To be honest, i am not entirely sure as to what it does (linux noob), but it's worked better for me than ndiswrapper which kindly tells me to go f*ck myself when i try to configure my Linksys WCP11 ver. 4 PCMCIA adapter.

Hope that helped some
-J

well the battery was easy all i has to do was add the battery applet to the task bar and wireless i had a dard that was allready supported so i just used the included drivers and it seems everything worked perfect

i do have another wireless card in my desktop that dosent have reguelar linux drivers but it supported but that mdis wrapper thing how do set that up?

Just go into the ndiswrapper directory, follow the install instructions, and you should be ok. It's a pretty simple setup.

-J

what do i do with the windows drivers that i want to "wrap" thats what i ment

i can find an rpm easy enough

What do you do w/ the windows drivers you want to "wrap"? I thought that was the point of the ndiswrapper. You just shove the sys and inf files of the driver you want somewhere on your computer and follow the readme install inside of the ndiswrapper directory, that's basically as far as I can explain it without a bit more specific question.

-J