On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:23:53PM -0500, Jim wrote: > > now it said in the destructions that i needed to install the firmware > files into the directory /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ <--- don't It's actually /lib/firmware . > /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: gcc: > command not found Look like you haven't got gcc installed so you can't compile C code. Why don't you upgrade to kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 which is currently in updates-testing and use the driver from there? Emmanuel