Linux Discussion

[#1]

I have purchased Lenovo G550 295895Q and have installed Scientific Linux 5.3_64 bit on it.

The OS is RHEL 5.3 Clone and i use it mainly for stability.

The installation was smooth and it has installed all the hardware but for the wireless Driver.

Can someone please help me in installing the Wireless driver?

The kernel version is 2.6.18.128.1.1, and the wireless card is from Broadcom.

Can someone give me a rpm for it?

I hate to compile the kernel.

Thanks

Shailesh Khole

[#2]

Can't help you with RHEL/Scientific Linux becuase I've never used either, but maybe there is something on the CentOS forums as it is also an RHEL 5.3 clone, but has a big community.

Other than that, if you don't want to start compiling kernels, I'd suggest using a distribution with a newer Kernel. If stability is your main goal then Ubuntu Hardy (the last LTS) might have a kernel which is new enough, other than that Debian Testing would be stable enough and new enough, but Kubuntu has always been stable for me, and Mandriva is another distribution which I found very stable in the past.

[#3]

This is an easy fix for this solution:

I am running Mandriva 2010 32-bit and 64-bit on two Y530 laptops.  What you need to do is download the following from the link I am providing:

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads (Main page - mark for the future)

This is the driver you need.  Just follow the instructions and you'll be running wireless in no time. 

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.24.2.12.tgz

Efrem