Im having problems getting my netgear ma401 wireless card to work with a fresh install of Fedora 4. Right now, as soon as I plug the card into the slot, the whole system freezes. Im using a compaq presario 2100(here's the stats: h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?dlc=en&lc=en&product=92269&cc=us&docname=c00191657#

Anyone have any idea's on why this is happening? or how to fix it?

What happens when you leave the card in the slot and just boot up?

Ive made a little progress since my last post. I was trying to get the netgear ma111 usb wireless device to work(which doesnt work, yet), and I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3 drivers. Now the ma401 no longer kills my laptop when I plug it in. However, it still doesnt work. I found drivers for the card on the netgear website, but they were designed for Redhat verson 7.3. When I try to install them(with make config), I get an error that says: "/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686/include/linux/modversions.h does not exist. To fix, run 'make dep' in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i386. I ran 'make dep' in that directory, and I got a warning, saying make dep is unneccesary now. I read in the Readme file that I should have a 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, or 2.4 series kernel source tree. I'm running 2.6, and I have a copy of the 2.6 kernel. I figured the kernels would be reverse compatible, but I could be wrong. So, will these drivers work with my setup? Im hoping they will, because they were the latest drivers from the netgear website. Anyone have any ideas?

Have you tried MadWiFi? http://madwifi.org/ Check the compatibility list first. If that doesn't work, you could give ndiswrapper a try.