Hi,

I'm 0 for 3. I have a Belkin F5D7010, a Linksys WPC55AG and a 3Com 3CRUSB10075. I've tried to set up wireless using all 3 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 running Ubuntu and FC4. I can't get anything to work.

I use ndiswrapper and my Windows .inf for the Belkin. I get the LAN light on the NIC to illuminate but not the power light. Naturally, I can't connect to my WAP

I can't get Madwifi to install to use the Linksys.

I found drivers for the 3com but make won't run.

Is there anyone who can offer me some advice? I'd hate to have to go back to Windows just to use wireless (MS is really ahead on this one, it pains me to say). All 3 cards work in my Windows partition just fine.

I'd appreciate some feedback instead of links, unless you have a really good step by step page that can help.

Thanks!

I have a Linksys WPC54G card that works well with Suse linux using ndiswrapper. Have you tried using ndiswrapper and your windows driver on the Linksys card. I had to compile ndiswrapper from source because the version that shipped with Suse didn't work well, so it may help you if you did the same.

I will try that. Since Madwifi was supposed to work with the Linksys, I thought I'd try that route.

Once I get ndiswrapper to work using ndiswrapper -l, what next? What steps do you recommend to connect to a WAP? (I've tried following about 4 different tutorials with no success).

Thanks