PCI desktop wireless adapter

[darksilver]

i was looking for a wireless pci adapter for my desktop just now, but none of the venders said that their wireless card can be supported by linux. At last i boughted SMC ieee802.11g pci adapter, since i must buy one at least for my windows. I just wounder wheter FC4 supports SMC wireless card and how can i install the driver.
Further more, is there any list of wireless card supported by FC4, where can i find it?

Thanks

[ryuheixys]

well, here's a list of wireless cards supported by linux.
http://linux_wless.passys.nl/

even if its not supported, we can always try ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper uses windows drivers to use wireless on linux)

[imdeemvp]

I use this wireless card ! (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43718) The vendors dont create linux drivers but the linux community does as you can see.

[bitrain]

Which chipset does the card have? Check with lspci
If it is the rt2500, use these drivers: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=285475

[ryuheixys]

its most likely a prism54 from what I've read, but then again... it seems new so we dont know until darksilver actually does the "lspci" command for us.....

[darksilver]

it is prism54, and thanks god, from the list provided by ryuheixys, the status of my model (SMC2802W) is green, so what should i do next

[ryuheixys]

just go to prism54.org and follow their documentation and instruction and install unless fedora does have the driver from install.... and fortunately for you... it does!
so....
add this line to this file at /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias wlan0 prism54

and you should be fine....
also, if you dont want to reboot for this to start working for your system right now, try this:
su -
modprobe prism54

also, i suggest you do this:
system-config-network
this is a gui provided by fedora for you to setup your network... its pretty intuitive.

[darksilver]

Well, acturally Fedora installed the prism54 for my wireless lan card and named it eth1.
I saw this line in my /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth1 prism54
however, i was still not able to access my wireless network, and i got this error message:
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Input/output error.
I don't know what to do now, someone please help me

[ryuheixys]

okay, redhat's command called:
system-config-network
will automatically set things up correctly for you.
first start that command somehow and it will ask for root passwd so enter it
then erase the original eth1 thing.
then create a new connection or whatever its called(make sure you select that its a wireless device for this one)
now, activate the device
and it should work

[darksilver]

I think I have tried this, and that is when I try to activate the device, I got the above error message.
Anyway, there seems two versions of my wireless card, SMC2802W and SMC2802W.v2, even though both used prism chips, v2 version is not supported by linux, and I am afraid I bought this one but I don't know how to check.

But ryuheixys also mentioned about ndiswrapper, can tell me how to use it?