Trouble setting up Linksys WPC11 on Fedora 9

mohaas05 · 10-13-2008, 04:04 PM

I'm trying to set up the Linksys Wireless-B WPC11 PCMCIA card on my Dell Latitude L400 running Fedora 9. From what I've researched, it appears the best way to do that would be through ndiswrapper. However, when I plug in the card while the system is running, a message pops up in GNOME telling me I had a kernel failure. Afterwards nothing seems to run anymore and I have to reboot to do anything. Attempting to start Linux with the card already installed results in Fedora hanging while starting sshd.

Larry Webb · 10-15-2008, 01:57 AM

Have you installed the ndiswrapper and the windows driver? If so you may have a driver conflict. If not the card may not be compatible with the hardware or linux.

mohaas05 · 10-15-2008, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Larry Webb

Have you installed the ndiswrapper and the windows driver? If so you may have a driver conflict. If not the card may not be compatible with the hardware or linux.

I've yet to install ndiswrapper. I'll try it again with it installed. I know it is compatible with ndiswrapper since I've seen others report success with it.