Im running Fedora 6 (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6) KDE and i can not for the life of me get my wireless working.

I have a ipw3945 wireless.
I think i installed ipw3945d and ieee80211 correctly from using freshrpms or ATrpms (cant remember).

When i reboot my computer i see that ipw3945 is indeed running but i still can not configure my wireless in Control Center->Internet and Network->Wireless Network. Everything is grayed out and can not be configured.

I added the following 3 lines to modprobe.conf:
alias eth1 ipw3945
install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet
remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945

I create a new file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 as follows:
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
#HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
#ESSID=xxxxxxx
#KEY='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx restricted'
MODE=Managed
RATE=Auto
PEERNTP=no

Question #1
I need to know how to find out the values for HWADDR, ESSID, KEY. Explain like you would to a kid please

Question #2
What do i do after i have this configured.

Question #3
Is there any real easy yum install for all of this?

Question #4
Why is this so damn annoying!

Just curious if you dis able SELinux and reset to enforcing (making SELinux relabel the system) does the Wireless card work then? I know there is a bug with SELinux's prelink function that will goof up alot of things. Also try installing yumex and see if the drivers for your card is in there. I believe for Wireless you are supposed to use Network Manager.

Sorry kind of a newbie. Dont know how to disable SELinux.

Also when using yumex. What should i download for ipw3945 with Fedora 6 (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6)

Thanks

In System>Administrator> Security Level and Firewall click the tab that says SELinux then choose disable from the dropdown, then repeat and choose enforcing. It will give a warning that the filesystem will be relabeled at next boot, click OK then reboot and let the system get relabeled (this can take awhile depending on how many files).
As for the Wireless, What card are you trying to use? If I use the yumex search for ipw3945 it turns up nothing. If I google the card I get this url: http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/ipw3945/ for the rpm file.
You should be able to download the file then use rpm -Uvh <rpmfilename> to install it.
You could google ipw3945 drivers for FC6 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 and go from there also. If I do it I get ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6-1.1.3-17.2.fc6.at.x86_64.rpm from the AT rpms page.