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@fastekintl.com Date: 2004/05/29 Sat PM 07:23:08 CDT To: "'fedora-list@redhat.com'" fedora-list@redhat.com 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.
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