Scientific Linux On G50 Laptop No Wireless Drivers

I bought a brand new G50 laptop with a core i5 intel processor for my business as I do with every computer I installed scientific linux and the wireless drivers aren't available.
I need to find some that will work in a bad way.

Maybe try System76: http://system76.com/index.php?cPath=28
I think they use open source drivers for everything, except the ones with Nvidia cards that probably use the closed source Nvidia drivers (not a problem on Arch obviously). I've heard a lot of good things about System76, and they even sent me free Ubuntu stickers
EDIT: Looks like they use "Intel Wi-Fi Link 5100" for wireless, at least on the one that I checked. Here's more info: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … 000-series The firmware it talks about I belive is available on the Install CD as long as you tell it to install, or of course with pacman (duh).
Look at the "Windows" button
Last edited by doorknob60 (2009-08-08 01:06:47)

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