where to start to set up wireless?

[Douglas Phillipson]

My suggestion is to go buy a SMC 2632W 802.11b card.  Fedora supports it 
out of the box and be done with it...

Doug P

Jon Savage wrote:
> You'll need to substitute whatever drivers your card needs instead of
> the drivers used in the example, once you start the make process
> you'll need to reference the location of the win32 drivers. have a
> look at the INSTALL or README (can't remember which) that is in the
> same directory where you extracted the ndiswrapper tarball to.
> 
> Bests
> 
> JS
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:35:32 -0300, Trevor Smith <trevor at haligonian.com> wrote:
> 
>>On September 13, 2004 10:48 pm, ByteEnable wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If you need to setup the NDIS wrapper also check out
>>>
>>>http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040507104718960
>>
>>Thanks for the pointer. I have (as expected) run into a problem that I barely
>>understand. Naturally I have no idea how to proceed.
>>
>>The instruction:
>>
>>    * verify the utils were installed:
>>          o whereis loadndisdriver ndiswrapper wlan_radio_averatec_5110hx
>>
>>does not produce the expected output. In fact, I first tried 'make rpm' and it
>>complained "RPM build errors: File not
>>found: /usr/sbin/wlan_radio_averatec_5110hx" and sure enough, 'make install'
>>also seems to be completely missing this file.
>>
>>[root at localhost ndiswrapper-0.10]# whereis loadndisdriver ndiswrapper
>>wlan_radio_averatec_5110hx
>>loadndisdriver: /sbin/loadndisdriver
>>ndiswrapper: /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper /usr/share/man/man8/ndiswrapper.8
>>wlan_radio_averatec_5110hx:
>>
>>Questions: what the heck is wlan_radio_averatec_5110hx, why would I need it
>>(my laptop is compaq, not averatec, and these instructions look to be
>>generic, not brand specific), should it have been present in the ndis file,
>>in my FC2 distro or what, and how can I find it?
>>
>>sigh.
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com
>>
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