Completely new user to Linux. I have Red Hat 7.1 installed, soon to get uprgrade to RH 7.2, hopefulley. MY question is concerning my Linksys Wireless card, model WMP-11. It is based on the Intersol PrismII chip. I have found drivers for it but I do not know how to go about installing them. Anyone who can offers suggestions, you are awesome. But do try and keep the explanations simple. I am a long time windows user. I don't really understand Linux yet, but I am learning slowly.

need a little more info. Like what type of file it is? Is it a tar.gz or a rpm??

either way, after u install it make sure u do a, insmod drivername
(this doesn't work on mine though so u can also add
/sbin/modprobe drivername
to ur /etc/rc.d/rc.modules after u install the driver
eg. (for my soundcard driver (emu10k1) i added):
/sbin/modprobe emu10k1
to my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

There is no simple way yet to get that card working. No matter what, you are going to have to compile drivers, so first lets make sure you have a compiler, and just for the heck of it, the kernel source code. From a command line, what happens with this:

gcc -v

Also, is there anything in the directory /usr/src/linux?

There are three sets of drivers that cover prism2 chipsets, you've probably found the linux-wlan project drivers, which are a complicated mess. There is also the orinoco project and the prism2 project. I'm currently replying to a SuSe user in a different thread who is trying the newest orinoco drivers to see if they cover this card. If not, I really doubt the prism2 project does, so its probably wlan-linux.

Cheers,

Finegan