On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:49:53PM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > This is hard because we lack some essential data, and no place to > find it. The first step is to name your wifi hardware on your computer. I don't follow. I find once you know what chipset your wireless card is wireless on Fedora is quite painless. For instance if I have a Linksys WMP54GS I type in to Google... linux linkys wmp54gs and it pops up in the first couple pages ndiswrapper and that it is a bcm43xx chipset. From the ndiswrapper pages I can figure out how to setup and configure the wireless driver. If I choose to dig deeper I can search for linux bcm43xx and get a lot of information on this issue. In addition I can do that with any wireless card. My current card is of the Atheros chipset and if I type in atheros linux I get madwifi. Do a search for madwifi rpm and I get livna. It's really not that difficult, just takes some research skills and the ability to type. > The second step is to determine which module(s) you need and what to > call the main one. I was fooling around with ipw2200 when what I needed > was ANOTHER kernel and the magic name ath_pci Is there anywhere a person > can get this information? I don't even know what to call it :-! Please see above. If using one of the madwifi kernel module packages from livna or freshrpms the user should not need to know ath_pci even exists. I wouldn't call it a magic word by any stretch of the imagination as the rpm's insert it in to modprobe.conf for you. I can get my atheros card setup in 3 easy steps. 1. Install livna RPM to enable that repository. 2. Run yum install kmod-madwifi 3. Run system-network-config I am sorry you are having so much difficulty. - Erich
