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Getting the Lenovo Yoga wireless driver working in Fedora 18

If you are like me you installed Fedora 18 off the live CD only to find that you can't do anything because the wireless card does not work by default. To get wireless working the first step is to install the build tools needed to install the driver. The easiest way to do this is to download the install DVD to a USB thumb drive. Once you plug it into the Yoga, Fedora will mount the drive automatically. Figure out where it mounted by going to Dolphin or whatever file manager you use and viewing the path to the drive. Now go into your yum repos and temporary change the yum repository to point to the live dvd image. [richie@localhost ~]$ su - Password: [root@localhost ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# gedit fedora.repo change from [fedora] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?