I'd like to be able to use my laptop's Linksys wireless card with Fedora 5, but Linksys doesn't provide Linux drivers. Has anyone out there figured out a "workaround" that will get Linksys cards to work with Linux? I'm a Linux & wireless "newbie", so I need some really low-level help.
Thanks,
Peter V.

Depends on model, chipset how you proceded - lspci command will give a clue.

Beagle2,
I'm new to all this, so I've pasted the command output below. Can you (or anyone) help me decipher this into information I can understand? I'd appreciate it.

[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03 )
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)
00:08.1 Communication controller: ESS Technology ESS Modem (rev 12)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter (r ev 11)
01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 13)
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Contro ller (rev 02)
[root@localhost ~]#

Try this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=350101 and if that fails this http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m....php/Main_Page . You have Broadcom chipset bcm4306 unfortunately, not the easiest to get working.

I don't use fedora, however I got my wireless working pretty easily following this guide:
http://www.technetra.com/writings/re...pper_wifi_html

You can use the bcm43xx drivers, but that only gives you 11M, not G speed.

I use ndiswrapper for the exact same card. Gets 54M, wpa, wep, everything. (Do a google search for ndiswrapper)