well I finally got Fedora core 1 installed but it won't recognize my Linksys Instant Wireless card it's the ver 3 pcmcia card, I have read a lot of tutorials about it and tried to run the drivers but I couldn't find my Kernel source tree. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks in advance.

ok the problem might be that you did not instal your kernal source what you can do in that case is inside of fedora folow my steps (you can do this logged in as a regular user)

1. click on the red hat in the bottom corner and move your mouse up to system settings
2. from the system setting menu select add/remove Applications (you will have to enter your root password if you are not logged in as root)
3. a screen will load and you should scroll down to kernal development and click on the lil empty box next to it.
4. click the Update button at the bottom of that winodow and your kernal source will be installed (you wil have to insert your fedora disks for it to be installed just put the ones it asks for in)

i hope this helped you and sorry for making it sound a lil n00bish but thats just how i tell people steps a lot of the time.

thank you I will try it later when I have more time.

I've spent over 30 hours searching for a site lists a PCMCIA card that works flawlessly with wireless networking for Linux. Any distribution. I'm sure that wireless networking isn't new. I challenge someone with skills far greater than my own to create drivers/ hardware/ etc, that work as flawlessly as they do on Windows. This is the last hurdle for me to switch to windows full time. Can someone focus on just this problem (it is a problem) and fix it once and for all. I don't think I'm alone when I say that 10 or more lengthy steps are not acceptable to setup wireless networking. Please reply. What are the most significant challenges to this issue?