The wireless adapter probably needs you to install a driver for it. That's a safe guess anyway. If the disk you mentioned is the disk that came with the device, then it almost certainly does not have a Linux driver. I would start by discovering the wireless chipset. If it is using the PCI bus, then this command in a Fedora terminal might do that...
If it is using the Universal Serial Bus, then this maybe give some useful information...
Post the Network controller and Ethernet controller lines from lspci and all of lsusb. Maybe somebody will recognize the chipset in the lspci output or the vendor:device ID number in the lsusb output and know something for you to do
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