In the earlier versions of fedora the touchpad for the notebooks were enabled by default but now in the fecora core 11 it is disabled by default .
To enable the touchpad for clicks and edge scrolls do the following
1 - Go to Systems > Preferences > Mouse
2 - Then go to Touchpad which is an option in the tabs .
3 -Click on Enable Touchpad with Clicks and finally click on the close button.