Newbie needs WLAN hep

[JWHolloway]

Hello folks --

I installed Fedora C2 onto an old Dell Latitude C600. It used a Linksys WPC54Gs wireless card, which worked fine with Windows 2K.

Now, of course, I cannot get it to work with FC2. The power/link lights even stopped coming on (I followed to best of my limited ability the instructions in the Fedora Bible).

My question, then:

What am I doing wrong, and how can I fix it and access the new with this Linksys card? Is ndiswrapper in FC2; how do Ai access if so?

Or should I junk the Linksys card and buy another one that's more LLinus-friendly? I'm fine with that; if someone could mae a recommendation I'd be appreciative for life.

[imdeemvp]

There are some suggestions here: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=139997

[Pipette Monkey]

I just set up a belkin 54g card on FC3 using ndiswrapper and it's working really well (using the connection to write this). Download the latest ndiswrapper from their website, sorry don't have it handy, then once you've extracted the files into a directory go into it as root and use the command "make rpm", you have to have the development package instlled for this to work. It will then make rpm's for ndiswrapper, the ndiswrapper kernel, and the debugger in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ then install the 3 rpms. for the next part you need the .inf file for the driver of your card. use the command "ndiswrapper -i name of the inf file" you can check if it worked with the command "ndiswrapper -l" it should say driver installed and hardware present. then use the command "modprobe ndiswrapper" the "ndiswrapper -m". Your card should now be installed and you can take care of the rest of your settings in the network settings panel of gnome like having it connect at start up and setting the SSID. Some useful commands from the terminal that I've found are iwconfig to set the essid, "iwlist wlan0 scan" to check for ESSID's your computer can see, and "ifup wlan0" to have the card get an IP address after choosing an ESSID. I think all of this is is in the generic and distribution specific install instructions on the ndiswrapper web page. Hopefully that'll work for you, it took me long enough to get it going right that i've memorized the process, so hopefully this'll help it go faster for you than it did for me