Newbie questions

[CrystalCowboy]

Originally Posted by Boddah89

Oh and why are there two instances of Fedora on the GRUB boot loader screen, one that says Fedora Core smp and another that doesent?

I'll knock off an easy one. the 'SMP' kernel is for symmetrical multi-processing. It is only useful if your system has more than one CPU.

[crackers]

Originally Posted by CrystalCowboy

I'll knock off an easy one. the 'SMP' kernel is for symmetrical multi-processing. It is only useful if your system has more than one CPU.

Yeah, but you missed one thing: why is it there?

The answer is because the CPU supports Hyper-Threading, making it appear as if there were two processors. Side note: from what I've read, you actually don't double your CPU capacity with HT, but gain (depending on software, compilation options, etc.) somewhere between 5 and 30% in increased performance. Generally, it doesn't seem to be worth it unless you're running high-performance servers.

[Grinchman]

Originally Posted by Hurkyl

I also have a Linksys WUSB54G and I'm using the ndiswrapper 0.10 successfully.
What I did is:
- Downloaded the ndiswrapper -0.10rc1.tar.gz
- Unpacked it to my home folder
- followed the instruction provided in the INSTALL file

notes:
- you have to be root to do the installation
- you need to install the development packages (gcc, etc...)
- you need the XP drivers for the usb devices

hope it helps

I downloaded the XP driver for WUSB54G and it comes as a winzip.exe file. What files do I need from this? Or can I use it as is on my linux install? I down loaded to an XP machine. I plan to write the driver and the tar.gz file onto a CD to get it to my Linux machine. Not sure wha the development packages referred to above are, nor how to install them after the original install from Fedora 3 disks.

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks.

- M

[Dogfacewoof]

What is the output from
#ndiswrapper -l
#iwconfig

I fought with my WUSBG54 adapter for a long time but it is working great now.

Dogface

[contraculto]

hey dogface, did you notice the dates on the other posts? not sure someone is still watching a fedora core 2 thread from 2004...

[bradchaus]

spend a couple of dollars and buy a Fedora 7 CD ... Fedora Core 2 is OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD