talljimbo

In Fedora, if the drivers come in an rpm package, generally all you have to do with the default setup is install the drivers. Unfortunately, with network cards, this is way easier if you already have a working internet connection, so if you can, connect your computer to the internet (temporarily) with an ethernet cable so you can download the drivers. Once you're connected, here's what to do next: -Set up yum to work with the repository where the driver you want is (in this case, livna.org - see the links to instructions in my previous post) -As root, run: yum install madwifi yum will download madwifi, anything else it needs to work (probably at least a kernel module), and install it all automatically. If you don't have any way of getting an internet connection from Fedora, you'll have to download the rpm and its dependencies and install them yourself. If that's the case, just say so, and somebody (maybe me) will guide you through it. -Once the driver is installed, reboot your computer (this is the simplest way) -Go into System Settings | Network, and look in "Hardware" for something like "Atheros (...)". If you've got the same version of the card as me, that's your card right there, and you can switch back to the "Devices" tab and hit new, and choose the obvious choices ("wireless", etc). If you manage to install the madwifi drivers and reboot without your computer complaining at all about them, and you still don't see anything in the "Hardware" section, you probably have a different version of the card, which means madwifi won't work, and I can't help you much.

danleff's taking you through step by step, so I'd continue to follow those directions, but here's some info on the DWL-520 rev B in particular that may be useful (most of this I got from the ndiswrapper sourceforge site, so you can look there for more info): -the card sold in Europe has a different chipset than the one sold in the USA. -The USA one uses the atheros chipset, which means you can use the madwifi drivers (and avoid ndiswrapper entirely). This method worked fine for me on Fedora Core 4 just a few days ago. To get the madwifi drivers, I recommend using the livna.org rpm repository and yum (check out http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html or www.fedorafaq.org to see how), so you can just type: yum install madwifi ...and then do what danleff suggested with the network configuration tool.