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Despite my troubles with Linux (Posted elsewhere on these forums)I'm trying my best to get at least one of my pc's using at as it's main O/S.
I have installed Fedora on my second PC and this one is to be used as a sort of home entertainment system.
My first hurdle to get over will be getting to the net. In its past Windows life, this pc connected via a wireless USB Intel Anywhere adapter and I just plugged it in and it got a signal with no problems from my wireless router upstairs which was connected to my main pc (and still is).
I doubt very much if Linux will see this, but just in case is there anything I can do to get it to work? (please don't forget that I am still a real noobie when it comes to Linux).
Failing that, if I need to buy another type of wireless card are there any recommendations and what would I need to do to A) then connect to the net and B) if at all possible network up to the main PC (WIN XP)so that I can see my MP3's and other media type files? (Can linux and Windows network together?)
Cheers
Allan
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It's difficult to tell whether your adaptor will work without knowing the exact chipset. What I suggest you try first is plugging it in, then run the network configuration tool from the menu, try to add a wireless device and see if it can see your adaptor.
You certainly can network with Windows machines, but one thing at a time 
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LOL!
Yep thinking ahead!
I tried to configure the intel adapter, but it wasn't in the drop down list of known adapters, I did try a couple of the listed Intel ones and also what looked like a standard USB adapter but I couldn't get it to work.
Asrock 939Dual-VSTA
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ @ 2200 MHz
2048 MB
7300GT 256MB
Maxtor 200 GB
SAMSUNG 200 GB
Freecom 500GB External
NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A
NEC DVD_RW ND-4550A
Thermaltake Damier Blue 480W
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Using your system for home entertainment may be problematic too using Fedora, I don't know if issues with true open source have been resolved, at Red Hat, but I know that when I used Fedora Core 2, you basically had to hack it in order for it to even play an mp3. I would read up on this sort of stuff before going too far with that OS, and see if you are still wishing to use it. Don't get me wrong, its a great OS, Gnome by default, which was perfect for me, and if it had allowed the mp3 stuff etc. by default, I would probably never moved on to SuSE and Xandros on my systems.
You can network Windows and Linux together by setting up Samba.
You can even access your Linux files from Windows on a dual boot system. You need an application to do it, I believe its called Paragon Mount Everything Professional, and basically allows you to access your linux partitions as mapped drives in Windows, without problem.
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