I'm running a Dell Inspiron E1405 with Fedora Core 5. I downloaded the latest ieee subsystem like the instructions told me extract the archrive and in ther terminal access the dir
i made sure i was in root to do this and this is the problem i have
repeatedly had...

[root@localhost wireless]# cd ieee80211-1.1.13
[root@localhost ieee80211-1.1.13]# make
Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp for ieee80211 components...
find: /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/build/: No such file or directory
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/build//.config: No such file or directo ry
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No suc h file or directory
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/build M=/home/joe/Desktop/wireless/iee e80211-1.1.13 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/build: No such file or directory. S top.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[root@localhost ieee80211-1.1.13]#

if anyone could help itd be greatly appreciated

Do you have the kernel source package installed (for the kernel you're running)? I don't think Fedora installs it by default. Install it and try again.

well i did that had to rename it to the one it was looking for and the subsystem installed. now when i go to continue the install the driver says it cant find the ieee subsystem

Did you actually load the module?

Just so I can be sure, since I'm having the same problem in FC6. I have installed the latest Kernel, but how do i actually load the module?

With modprobe, e.g. to load a module called "foo", you'd issue

# modprobe foo

I've gotten ndiswrapper to work with some wireless cards, but I haven't yet suceeded with intel 3945 yet.
In Fedora 5, you have to have both the kernel and kernel-devel packages installed. Install them with rpm -Uhv packagename.rpm. Once both are installed, use ln -fs /usr/src/kernels/kernelname /lib/modules/kernelname/build. cd into the directory with ndiswrapper. tar zxvf ndiswrapper-version.tar.gz. cd into the new directory. Run make install. If there are no errors, cd into the directory containing the windows driver (inf file). Use ndiswrapper -i driver.inf. Use ndiswrapper -l. If it says hardware present, you've used the right one. Use modprobe ndiswrapper. cd into /etc. Use your favorite text editor to edit modprobe.conf. Add the line, alias wlan0 ndiswrapper to the top. Open the network manager and create a new wireless connection, you should see the ndiswrapper option. Unless I made an error somewhere above, it should work with most wireless cards.