Issues with scientific linux.

[agent_509]

After finally getting it installed, I have several issues. First off, this may just be something that comes with the distro, but it takes several minutes to boot up, not sure what's up with that.

But I boot into an 800x600 desktop environment, I can't change that in the settings, so I figure maybe if I could hook up to my wireless network that would help, but I have no idea how.

I go to administration, network, and find two cards, one is wireless, when I hit 'activate' after selecting it, it gives me an error saying it could not obtain ip information. If I go to preferences, more preferences, network connections. Then I go to wireless, there is nothing there. How do I connect?! this is driving me crazy!

[Rubberman]

Any particular reason why you are using Scientific Linux? Like CentOS, it is a pretty vanilla clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), other than having more up-to-date kerberos authentication, better andrew file system support, etc. Like RHEL and CentOS, it is quite a bit behind the curve, wireless support-wise anyway. I use CentOS on my workstation and have had issues getting my bluetooth and usb broadband sprint cdma modem to work. However, the Intel hardware ethernet works fine, and I was able to get my web camera working. For robust wireless support, I prefer something more current kernel-wise, such as Ubuntu. I use that on a bunch of different laptops and all the wireless stuff works out-of-the-box without any hassles, including my android smart phone as a G3 modem.