Wireless network card setup, Fedora Core 1...

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Michael Mayhew wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
>    I recently checked Linuxcompatible.org for a list of potential wireless 
> cards for my desktop, and have decided on the D-Link PCI WL-520. On the 
> site, the noted drivers required were the Prism2 drivers. Those, I believe, 
> are not included with FC1. (Or can I use the orincoco drivers? Even though 
> when I ran lsmod, the orinoco_cs module did not appear) Also, I have seen a 
> package linux-wlan-ng that contains the Prism2 drivers but when I do an rpm 
> search on rpmfind.net or freshrpms, nothing comes up. Has anyone found, for 
> sure, the Prism2 drivers, whether included in some other package or on their 
> own, and, if so, where? Also, since I don't have internet until this card is 
> installed, would the package fit on a floppy? Thanks for any and all 
> assistance. I greatly appreciate it.

You might want to check hostap driver. 

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1019
http://thomas.apestaart.org/download/pkg/fedora-1-i386-fedora-stable/kernel-module-hostap-0.1.2-0.fdr.5.1/

Satish