Two Weeks with Fedora 7

It's been 2 1/2 weeks since Fedora 7 was released. May 31 to be exact. I installed it on my Toshiba Satellite as soon as it was available, triple booting with Windows Vista and Fedora Core 6. Fedora 7 has been running very well to date. The display resolution is perfect at 1280x800 and I have all the applications I need. Internet, e-mail, etc. The IPW3945 wireless is even working flawlessly. Still, there's no sound volume. As far as I can tell music plays correctly, I just can't hear it. It's not really a big issue with me. It would be nice to be able to play some tunes, but I'll survive with out them. The built-in the bezel web cam doesn't work either, but I consider that a toy at best. I really have no use for it. Other than those two minor issues I'm very pleased with the latest release from the Fedora developers.

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Fedora 7 Wireless

My Toshiba Satellite laptop, the A205-S4577, uses the Intel IPW3845 wireless card. To get wireless working after installation of the OS all I needed to do was to go to the Services manager and enable NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatch. At this point the Network Manager icon appeared in the top panel. Clicking on that icon gave me a list of the wireless networks in my immediate area, including of course, my own. I selected my network, entered the security key and was connected. Other Fedora users have reported more difficulty. There is an alternative method posted by a user at www.fedoraforum.org which also worked well for me in the pre-release versions of Fedora.