O.K. I've hunted the forums and found a few links to outside sources 'explaining' how to install Linksys WMP54G drivers on a nicely freshly minted FC7 core. I'm a complete noob like I said, and I'm sure the directions are easy for some more experienced users. But for me, yeah, I got lost horribly. I was playing around with ubuntu and installing my linksys drivers for it was simply a matter of editinga few files ( which was easy ).

Any help with step by step instructions would be great. Sorry to be a pain I tried this on my own for about 4 hrs to no avail.

Doesn't Linksys use a Broadcom chipset? If so, your problem may be that the Broadcom bdc43xx driver has been automatically installed for you by anaconda (the Fedora installation manager). That driver will not function until you run the bcm43xx-fwcutter program on the ...sys file (delivered by Linksys for use with Windows) to extract the propitiatory microcode from that file to use with the driver.

The "rub" is that only one driver may access the hardware, so having the (non-functioning) driver installed will "block" any other driver from running, and you'll never be able to get it to work.

You can check to see if any bcm43xx driver is running by using the command ps -e | grep -i bcm to list all running processes with "bcm" or "BCM" in their process name. (The ps -e lists all running processes, the "|" transfers the output to the input of the grep -i bcm command, which prints any strings containing "bcm" (ignoring case) in them.)

You can also use the command /sbin/lspci to see all the devices connected to your PCI bus, and a dmesg | grep -i net to see any network-related messages generated during your boot.

If the bcm43xx driver is running (and if you wish to use some other driver), you can prevent it from running be adding its name to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file and rebooting.

Not sure about others, but mine I know runs the RT2500 chipset from Ralink technologies if that helps.

Well, it means my suggestion missed the mark. I recently installed a Linksys wireless card in one of my grandchildren's systems, and that card used a Broadcom 4306 chipset, so I thought it was a possibility.

Did you look at the lspci and dmesg outputs to see if there were any error messages displayed? Is Fedora even detecting your Linksys device?

Which specific methods did you use to try to get it to work? What error messages, if any, were displayed when you used them?

Are you sure that all non-working drivers are not running on your system? (As I mentioned, only one driver can use the hardware, and a non-working driver, if loaded, can lock the hardware, even if it fails to work.)

Does Linksys provide a Linux driver? (Look in their web site: They may provide drivers for some of their cards.)

Have you considered asking the moderators to move this thread to the "Linux Wireless Networking" forum?

What, precisely, does your Ubuntu installation use for a driver and networking setup?

Have you installed the NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispacher packages, and the wpa_supplicant package so you can use WPA and WPA2 protected access points? If you use KDE, have you installed the knetworkmanager applet package?

What are the contents of the /etc/wlan0.conf file? (Assuming your card is accessed as wlan0.)

Please give as many precise details as possible, since few of your readers here can access your system, and it's fairly hard to read your mind from this distance.

Just a side not: as of version 7, it's "Fedora", not "Fedora Core".