I'm still fairly new to Linux which is why I definitely need an internet connection in linux.

I have a Linksys Instant Wireless USB adapter, is there anything out there (free of course) that would allow me to use this in RH 7.2?

I also have a problem with the 'make' command, I don't know how to use it correctly...I always end up downloading like 20 files before anything works, if it ever works, and thats for every single file I try to 'make'.

The only drivers that tend to cover those prism2/2.5/3 USB devices are from the linux-wlan project. You can check them out here: www.linux-wlan.net

An RPM is available, but I don't run an RPM distro so I don't know how well they work.

make excutes a makefile, if there is one, the usual steps in compiling something are:

tar xvzf package.tar.gz
cd package/
./configure
make
make install

Usually a package comes with an un-configured makefile that the configure script modifies so it'll specifically use whatever kind of software you've got.

Cheers,

Finegan