LinuxQuestions.org - wireless AND wired question/problem :-P

Firstly, the wireless problem. I got a great Linksys wireless G router and set it up--works fine. Another client computer on my network wants to connect with a D-Link DWL-520 wireless PCI card from a Fedora Core 2 box. Plain and simple-not working.

I did lspci -v to see if the kernel recognized it. And it does. Then i tried playing with ifconfig and iwconfig and ifup eth0 with no luck. The router sends out dhcp broadcasts also. I checked D-Links website for this product--no linux driver :(. I tried many things like wireless B and G mixed and diff 2.4GHz channels.

I also went into /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers and searched around. I couldnt find anything that really matched. But that doesnt matter cause I couldnt get modprobe working. (isnt modprobe what is used to install all those drivers??).

Not getting an internet interface to come up is quiet a common problem for me. Really makes me look and feel like a shitty sys admin.

Examples of failures :-P

Debian sarge doesnt have internet config in the installer so needless to say apt-get didnt work and i had no idea how to bring up eth0 and configure it rendering the system near useless (no internet=no pkgs).

Many times I have recompiled a kernel to a newer version. After booting up, im offline.

I cant think of everything, but i assure you the list goes on. So anybody, please, give me so general and specific information on getting those damn NICS (both wired and wireless) to work!

thanks much.