Hey guys,

I've been doing my share of searching and didnt find anything that links FC2 and linksys cards in general.

The HCL States that they are compatible.. And I even read comments like "Its unlikely that you'll run into driver issues with FC2"

But FC2 doesnt detect my wireless card.

Being a real noob, I'm still new to linux commands.. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Yes I'm willing to put in work to get my problem solved.. not looking for an easy way out but I dont know where to start!!

Assume nothing.. I'm a

I know computers but just not linux (ok I'll say it I'm a windows user )

Thanks!!
Ram

There are no native linux drivers for that card, yet you can run the windows drivers with ndiswrapper.
(Works fine on my 3 WMP54G cards on linux).

The things you need are

1) ndiswrapper
2) wireless tools
3) windows drivers

You might also have to recompile the kernel, depending on what fedora uses, I don't know that.
The best site for wireless networking on linux is imho :


http://hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tour.../Wireless.html

Depending on availability you have to get ndiswrapper and wireless tools either as rpm or compile them from source.
Then you run ndiswrapper to tell it where your windows drivers are, it will then be able to be loaded as a module
with modprobe and wrap itself around those windows drivers.
After that you should get a handle wlan0 which you then can configure with iwconfig (part of the wireless tools).
Finally you setup the networking side of things (IP,ROUTING etc) with ifconfig and route, or use the GUI tools on fedore
I guess)

Hope this helps
cheers
bareego

This is exactly what I've been in search of! I'll have to try this out tonight.

I knew I had to do something with ndiswrapper(sp?) but I didnt even know what it was!!

I see it does some kind of translating?! Cool!! I definitely learnt something..

Another stupid question.. where do you go to recompile the core and what exactly does that do? (this is a basic linux architechture question eh?)

Sorry about the "Duh dont you know anything?!" Questions!

ram