I saw there are rpms for ndiswrapper in FC3....are there any for FC4?

Where did you find the rpm's for FC3?

I use ndiswrapper and I've always installed from the official source. It's quite easy to follow the instructions. (That was my first 'linux compilation' as a newbie).

1. Install the FC3 source
2. Follow the instructions from the official site (basically download, make and make install)

I wound up building it also-the rpm gave me errors. I'm not sure where I saw the ndiswrapper.rpm for FC3 but I know I saw precompiled binaries for various distros off of the link you posted.

How did you get your wlan0 to establish an IP address on boot? I get check cable error about wlan0 when it boots but it finds ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.conf ok.

If you followed the instructions on the ndiswrapper installation page, then you already have ndiswrapper registered for modprobe.

I assume that you already tested that the card works correctly when you enter the iwconfig and ifconfig parameters from the console.

So if everything up to this point is OK:

- Open Network configuration tool:
From the KDE meny: System settings -> Network Configuration
or from the console: system-config-network

- Select your wireless device and click the 'Edit' tool bar button
- Under General Select 'Activate device when computer starts' and select if you want to obtain a static IP or through DHCP
- You shouldn't normally care about the next two tabs: Route, Hardware device (If you do, then you should know what to put there).
- Under the Wireless Settings set the mode, the network ESSID for your home network and the WEP key if you are using WEP. Something confusing is that you have to prefix yor Hex Key with 0x. e.g. if the key you enter in the command line is FE1684AA78 then you would enter 0xFE1684AA78 in the key field.

Click OK and that should work.