How to install Linksys WMP54G wireless card in Fedora 7?

Doug52392 · 07-29-2007, 11:31 AM

Hi, I recently installed Fedora 7 on my new computer, which works great, except that my Linksys WMP54G v4.1 PCI wireless card with the RaLink RT61 chipset does not work. How do I get it to work?

odcheck · 07-29-2007, 02:31 PM

download the windows driver
download install ndiswrapper form rpm.livna.org repository

then install the driver using ndiswrapper
there are a lot of threads in this forum that describe how to do this.

And configure your card with system-config-network

Thats it.

Doug52392 · 07-29-2007, 03:02 PM

I installed ndiswrapper and loaded the driver, but nothing happens. The wireless card still does not load. What do I do? When i install the drivers and use system-config-network to activate wlan0, it says SIOCSIFFLAGS: No buffer space available
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No buffer space available
Failed to bring up wlan0.

odcheck · 07-29-2007, 04:15 PM

Describe us please the steps how you used ndiswrapper step-by-step
including the name of the inf file.
can you modprobe for ndiswrapper?
shows ndiswrapper -l the dirver loaded?
Please post the step-by-step guide you performed and the output of the ifup sequence.