Hello GA-B1-G5
This is the generic instruction set for installing your windows driver with ndiswrapper:
Ndiswrapper, as it's name implies is a way of wrapping some Linux code around a windows driver to make it work in Linux.
Ndiswrapper will not work with Windows Vista drivers. It is also not happy with every version of a driver for every chipset. If the one that came with your card doesn't work it may be necessary to experiment with other manufacturers drivers that were made for the particular chipset.
The parts of the windows driver file that you are looking for are the .inf file and the matching .sys file.
For instance in my case when I used ndiswrapper for my broadcom card, there was a 'bcmwl5.inf' file in the driver along with a bcmwl5.sys. Other manufacturers will use different file names.
Acquire full root rights with:
su -
That's a space and a minus sign after the su. It gives full root rights over the machine, not just over your own environment which is what you get with plain su.
If you haven't already, install the rpmfusion repositories:
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
Install ndiswrapper:
yum install kmod-ndiswrapper
should bring in the three relevant packages.
Then set up and configure ndiswrapper with:
ndiswrapper -i <path to your windows driver file>.inf
should install the driver,
ndiswrapper -l
if it is going to work should return "driver present" and "hardware present"
modprobe ndiswrapper
should load the driver into the kernel, but probably only until you reboot.
If you are lucky now and NetworkManager is running then after a short while it 'may' begin reporting wireless networks. NetworkManager is the preferred method of connecting to wireless networks with Fedora and should be located on the top Gnome Panel to the right in the notification area.
If it works, or indeed if it doesn't you will also need to run:
ndiswrapper -ma
and then reboot.
Do note the proviso in the second quoted paragraph, no Vista drivers.
If you don't have internet access to the machine I have notes to download the things you need on another machine and transfer them to your wireless installation.
Getting late here, if you're quick I might see a request for those this evening. If not tomorrow morning.