I setup a linux os(FC6) into my laptop, but the wireless card is not working. And, I have found a website with instruction for enabling the wireless card for my laptop, but i am not quite understand with the instruction. Is the instruction saying that i need to recompile the kernel to enable the wireless card? here is the instruction page http://portege.qiken.org/network.html

Fedora Linux is one of the "Hippie" or "hate the world" distributions. It does not use common sense with relation to drivers, but rather an idealogical standpoint that anything that's not "free" is evil... Unfortunately, Linux is copy of the Unix operating system, but built out of hatred of commercial software, such as MS Windows, Apple OSX, Sun Solaris, and even Unix itself!!! There are some distributions which use the Linux kernel, but don't carry on about commercial software like the "hate the world" distro's. Try the following (or one of): * Ubuntu * SuSe Linux * PC Linux OS * Linux Mint I'm sure there's others too, but those ones will include your Wifi drivers with no configuration needed. Ubuntu let's you run from the CD, before you install to "test" this, before you actually install it.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/...

Pretty sure Fedora has wireless built in. Try this and see if it helps. " Fedora / RedHat With Fedora / RedHat, wireless configuration will require some additional statements in your NIC configuration files. 1. Configure your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file normally as if it were a regular Ethernet NIC. DHCP Version Fixed IP Version ============ ================= DEVICE=eth0 DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL=yes IPADDR=192.168.1.100 ONBOOT=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static 2. Add the following statements to the end to specify that the NIC is wireless; provide the ESSID to use (in this case homenet), and choose Managed (a WAP on present of the network) or Ad-hoc (no WAP) for the wireless mode. "Managed" is the most likely setting if you have a wireless router or WAP on your network. If you are using a 802.11g wireless router and NIC, you can specify the higher speed 54Mbps maximum data rate this protocol provides, if not, the NIC will default to the 11 Mbps maximum rate of slower protocols. The NIC will automatically negotiate the protocol type with the WAP. You just need to set the maximum rate. # # Wireless configuration # TYPE=Wireless MODE=Managed ESSID=homenet RATE=54Mb/s These commands need only be on the main interface file. They are not needed for IP aliases. Your wireless NIC should function as if it were a regular Ethernet NIC using the ifup and ifdown commands. " http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/... I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.