Tried getting the nightmare Linksys WPC11 Version 4 working in Red Hat...no go. So buddy suggested try Fedora Core 2, found a page summed up some of the forums I had read before regarding this card, w/ simple straight-through instructions. Using NDISWRAPPER, now the card is listed in GUI Network config, it's got the proper ESSID & WEP KEY, the card works in Win XP, but when I try to activate it in Fedora Core 2, I get told it can't be reached.

I've got a Acer Travelmate 292EXC laptop w/
Fedora Core 2 kernel v# 2.6.5-1.358

I wanted to post the link where I got it but apparently I haven't posted enough yet, so if you can help please PM or email me & I'll send the source link

PLEASE HELP, SO CLOSE YET SO FAR

What do you mean by activating it doesn't work? Cause the if you can load the card's essid and wep key the ndiswrapper module i sin your kernel and it should work unless you're still missing stuff.

Do you have:
-dhcp enabled and does it connect and set the things properly?

or:
-an ip address? -> check with "ifconfig wlan0"
-a nameserver = 0.0.0.0 (other numbers instead of the 0s) in /etc/resolv.conf
-a good gateway -> do "route" and see if the table is correct or post the out put here.

If you're having trouble I suggest trying to get it to work without DHCP since you have to do it manually so you know what you've set and what could be missing. So could you post all the output you get and that of "iwconfig wlan0" as well?

I do have DHCP responding, I have a wireless router, linksys wireless-b router.

In the Fedora GUI, under system tools ->Network Device Control is a listing of my wired ethernet port<not concerned> and my wireless card, but if I select my wireless card and click the activate button I get the following message : "Determing IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present. Check cable?"

output for iwconfig wlan0
<1 weird thing is in the GUI it says I have the ESSID, but in terminal it's not there>
"Wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID: off/any Nickname: "localhost.localdomains"
Mode: Auto Frequency: 2.437GHz Access point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx0Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B
Encryption key:3741-3742-4543-3238-4639 Security mode:restricted
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level: -65 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc: 0 Missed beacon:0"

/etc/resolv.conf is empty

output for route
***********************************************************************************************
Kernel IP routing table
Desitination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
***********************************************************************************************

Like I thought. Your settings are completely off. Now I don't have much time to completely write everything to get it on boot but here's how you can get it to work.

Change *** to your essid
after ifconfig change the 0.0.0.0 to the IP address your router could give you. Often something like 192.168.x.10 (can be anything from 1 to 255 but choose one that's unlikely to be assigned, it starts assigning at 1)
as gateway ip adress change the 0.0.0.0 to your router's IP adress. Then it should work.

Now edit your /etc/resolv.conf file with
Change 0.0.0.0 with your router's IP address.
I'll explain how to do it with dhcp later if you still need it then. Which dhcp client do you have installed. Dhclient or dhcpcd? If you have neither I suggest dhcpcd since in my experience it worked better.

meow

alright followed your steps with come success. All the commands on I typed in terminal, fedora core 2 registered, but when I ran iwconfig they didn't work. I loaded up the system settings->network, and it said the card was active, so I entered the same settings in that way, but still no go with mozilla. I missed a bit of it, but during the boot it was mentioning problems associating the card

here's the output iwconfig wlan0 after changes:
IEEE 802.11 ESSIDff/any Nickname:"locahost.localdomain"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensivitiy=0/3
RTS thr=2432B Fragment thr=2432B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100/100 Singal level:-86 dBm Noise Level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid:0 Rx invalid crypto:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

here's the output route after changes:
Desitination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default * 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0

Your essid isn't set properly yet. Try to set it again till it works with
It might be that they fail. Which version of ndiswrapper are you using since I hear some people have trouble with version 0.11 though I personally only found it worked better. You could try updating your wireless-tools package if you have trouble with iwconfig.

so got rid of version 0.11 ndiswrapper, and downloaded version 0.10, re-did the setup and still no go. No matter how man times I enter the iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys, the output iwconfig doesn't change...ugh what am I doing wrong

You mentioned upgraded my wireless package, how do I do that & where do I download the packages from

I think fedora has some package manager. But I'm not familiair with fedora , maybe you can find the package on its ftp server.