There's a really good howto at this page here. http://julian.coccia.com/article-53.html Keep in mind that the default .config shipped with the Fedora kernel works fine, you won't need a vanilla kernel. > > From: "Gaffey, Mike" <MGaffey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2004/05/29 Sat PM 07:23:08 CDT > To: "'fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx'" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Wireless Dlink USB on Fedora Core 2 > > First, thanks for the help w/ my dual boot problem ... working great now! > > I'm trying to figure out how to get a dlink DWL-122 USB installed. I'm a > bit overwhelmed with all the information available. I could use a quick > list of everything that needs to be done and gotchas. From what I've been > reading it looks like I need to install wlan-ng which involves rolling my > own kernel or something which is a bit confusing because most of the info > looks like it is for the 2.4 kernel and I'm running the 2.6 in a default FC2 > install ... how do I know which wlan-ng package to use w/ what kernel source > and where the heck do I put all the stuff I'll be creating - there appears > to be some confusion - maybe only in my head :) - in the various things I'm > reading about where the FC2 kernel is located. > > It looks like if I get the kernel/wlan thing figured out, I need to install > a driver from prism for the USB wireless device ... even this doesn't appear > to be all that straight forward. > > FYI ... I've never messed w/ the kernel and have mostly used RPM packages on > the old Red Hat distros for just about everything, so while I have managed > to get Apache, MySQL, PHP, Postfix, Samba, etc working on Red Hat 7+ over > the years, I'm still pretty much of a newbie when it comes to doing "nuts > and bolts" kinds of things in linux, so explain it to me like I've never > seen a computer before. There is tons of info on the web about just about > everything Linux related, but for this particular problem I haven't been > able to piece the various fragments of info together in a way that makes me > understand how to do make this happen. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
