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I am planning to learn more about Linux, and have installed Fedora Core 2 on a dual boot system together with Windows XP pro.

Because linux isn't linux without internet, I would like to go online with Fedora. However, I connect to the internet using a wireless card (Linksys: WMP54G), and there is no appropriate linux driver for this device.

After some searching, I tried to get everything working with the ndiswrapper, following a tut. I found on the internet. Most of the instructions went just fine, but I can't seem to ping my router (a linksys WRT54G, local IP: 192.168.1.1)

Can someone please help me?

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Some command print outs:
(PS: with the route command I did see my router's IP address)

[root@localhost root]# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:41:61:A9:A4
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:41ff:fe61:a9a4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2203 (2.1 Kb) TX bytes:10582 (10.3 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Memory:e6000000-e6001fff

[root@localhost root]# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
102 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 101008ms

[root@localhost root]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:AA:EA:88
Bit Rate=36Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-69 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:19 Invalid misc:54 Missed beacon:0

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My etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 bestand:

# NDIS Wrapper Configuration: Linksys WMP54G
DEVICE=wlan0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
MODE=Managed
ESSID=linksys
CHANNEL=11
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=no
RATE=Auto
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
HWADDR=00:0c:41:61:a9:a4
GATEWAY=
IPV6INIT=yes