FC5 wireless configuration ?

[Gerry Tool]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Can someone point me to a procedure for setting up a "wireless" adapter 
> card?
> 
> I have ndiswrapper and the Windows driver that came on a CD with the 
> Linksys [wmp54g] PCI card.
> 
> ndiswrapper -l
> Installed drivers:
> rt2500          driver installed, hardware present
> 
> I did modprobe ndiswrapper.
> 
> 
> And iwconfig  reports:
> 
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any          Mode:Auto  
> Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated           Bit Rate:54 
> Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   Sensitivity=-109 dBm          RTS thr:2347 B   
> Fragment thr:2346 B           Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> ppp0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> This is as far as I got, don't know what to do next.  I'd like to see 
> some indication that it sees the router which is presently on an XP box 
> about six feet away.
> 
> Bob Goodwin
> 
There are a lot of threads about wireless in the fedora-list archives 
since FC5 was released on 3/20.  I would start there.

Gerry