Seriously, what is going on.

[amperaa]

I have a WMP54G PCI card, and I'm FC6.

I found this (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/rt61.html) tutorial on how to install it, but I am having diffuculties actully navigating around files in the terminal.

In my home/brian brian directory I have two files, one is called Desktop and the other, Driver.

So my prompt looks like this to start with;

[Brian@localhost ~]$

I then type;

[Brian@localhost ~]$ cd desktop

And get;

[Brian@localhost ~]$ cd desktop
bash: cd: desktop: No such file or directory

I then type;

[Brian@localhost ~]$ cd driver

and get;

[Brian@localhost ~]$ cd driver
[Brian@localhost driver]$

So it see's the driver file, but not the desktop file, I don't get it. Now inside my driver file lies the ralink driver for my WMP54G, but when I type;

[Brian@localhost driver]$ cd "long ass driver filename"

I get a "No such file or directory found error". Even though a glance at the file system shows me that the file is there.

Anyone care to enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong.

I really need to get this working. Thanks. :cool:

[ms1234]

use cd Desktop with a capital D .. filenames and directories are case sensitive

[jim]

because desktop is not spelled desktop it is spelled Desktop

try cd ~/Desktop or cd Desktop

[markkuk]

The desktop directory is called "Desktop". Linux is case sensitive, so you must use "cd Desktop" to access it. You can't cd to a file, only to a directory ("Folder" in Windows-speak).

[amperaa]

OK, thanks for your help i got quite far now,

I am trying to open a file now, and in the tutorial it said to open it with your favorite text editor, being a newbie at linux i dont know what to use, i tryed opening it will gedit, but no dice.

Any recommendations?

[ms1234]

try jed or emacs or pico or nano or just su and install them with yum :)

[muep]

Gedit is a fine choice, too.

[amperaa]

try jed or emacs or pico or nano or just su and install them with yum :)

Could you eleaborate a little, I have never used Linux before, so thats means very little too me.

I tried Gedit, and it just said that it couldnt open the file

Well, I try to type in "iwconfig" and i get

bash:iwconfig:command not found

same goes for ifconfig, what going on?

And yes, im in root

[ms1234]

Use command su to become root

use yum to install programs, like
yum install jed
or
yum install pico

You get the idea.

ifup and ifconfig are located in /sbin and you need to have the path before them before you can run them, so:

/sbin/ifconfig

[markkuk]

Use command su to become root

No, use command "su -" to become root!. The option "-" is very important, wihout it all system maintenance commands in /sbin and /usr/sbin aren't found in your $PATH.