Hello... I already read this thread, but I still can't find those rpms needed. They state in that forum that Suse 10.1 will detect automatically any wireless card, but I like Fedora very much and don't really feel like trying another distribution. Is there any other way to do it? Thank you.

ndiswrapper may be the solution. This enables you to use the window driver .inf file for your network card.
All the required inf is available on the site.

Have you upgraded your kernel recently?

I updated to 2157, and unlike kernels 2054, 2096, 2122, etc. this one actually detected my wiereless card. (The kernel people have made some improvements in detecting networking cards)

No, I didn't. Anyway, the only way I know how to update my kernel is using yum from the internet, but the problem is I don't have an internet connection. Is there any other way to do it?

Yes... I have exactly the same problem.


To get the latest kernel, go here on some computer (internet cafe, etc.)

Click on i386 or x86_64 as appropriate to your hardware.
Now the packages on this page are in alphabetical order, so scroll down to "kernel". There are lots of packages here you don't need, but three I suggest you click on and download are:
"kernel", "kernel-devel" and "kernel-kdump": e.g:
kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5
kernel-kdump-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5

...Of course, you wan't the latest kernel, so choose the highest number available. If you use xen, and need some of the xen kernel packages, then get them there while you're at it.


Now, go to this page:
Choose i386 or x86_64 as appropriate to your hardware. Get whatever packages you need here, e.g.
kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-1.2.6.17_1.2157_FC5
ntfs-kmod-common-2.1.27-1.lvn5.noarch

...for ntfs read support. (Check out ntfsprogs for this though: its better; has some write support. Compile it from source though: don't use the rpm, its old).

OR:
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.26.18-1.lvn5.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-devel-8.26.18-1.lvn5.x86_64.rpm
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit-8.26.18-1.lvn5.x86_64.rpm
kmod-fglrx-8.26.18-1.2.6.17_1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm
kmod-fglrx-kdump-8.26.18-1.2.6.17_1.2157_FC5.x86_64.rpm

...for the proprietary ATI driver.

Take these rpms home on a USB pen / CD / etc., and install them with rpm -ivh. e.g.:

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For future reference:

The two other pages you'l need for rpms are:

(Click on advanced search and just select Fedora 5)
and
...which isn't quite as good as the pbone website, but still useful.

These two pages are for searching for rpm dependencies. This will happen when you download an rpm from somewhere
(e.g. the fedora extras page: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...a/linux/extras)

and when you try and use "rpm -ivh" to try and install the rpm, it tells you are missing something, e.g. lib_expat.so.0. You then type "lib_expat.so.0" into rpm.pbone.net, and it will tell you all the places where you can download the rpm its dependent on. However, you may occasionally fall into so-called "dependency hell", which is the frustrating thing about not using yum sometimes. Still, if you don't have the internet, you'll have to.

Yeah, I just updated to 2157 but still, when I go to System -> Configuration -> Network I can't find there in the Hardware tab any wireless network card. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Have you set it up yet, though?

In system-config-network, click on the "new" button, Click on Device Type: "Wireless connection", then Forward, and hopefully your network card should be shown just above "Other Wireless Card".

If it only shows "Other Wireless Card", you might just have to use ndiswrapper like the other guy said.

All I see there is "Other Wireless Card", so I tried to install ndiswrapper, like you guys suggested. I found this link where is explained in detail how to install it. Everything went just like there is stated there until I tried "modprobe ndiswrapper", when I write this command my laptop freezes. I tried 3 times and the last time I let it work for about 5 minutes, so Linux definetely crashed. It might be because I upgraded to kernel 2.6.17 and I installed these 3 rpms: kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686, kernel-devel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686, kernel-kdump-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5.i686. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks a lot.

I tried to do it again with 2.6.16 kernel and my computer just restarts when I try "modprobe ndiswrapper". Does anyone have any idea why is this happening? Because I'm trying to do this for a week now... Thank you.