Dwl-g520, Fedora Core

[Jos]

I just installed FC5 on my computer and it doesnt recognize my wireless card. Does anyone know what i could/should do? Or maybe there is a driver i need?

[beagle2]

First off find out which chipset your card uses, model not enough as manufacturers tend to use several different chipsets for the same card. Do /sbin/lspci -v or just lspci -v and look for something like
00:0c.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
subsystem: D-Link System Inc DWL-G520+ Wireless PCI Adapter
Mine uses acx111 chipset as above. Yours may be different, then depending on result you may find you have to use ndiswrapper with a windows driver.

[Jos]

You'll forgive me if i ask how, I'm a newb to linux.

[jordower]

open a terminal window such as konsole
type "su" and give it your root password
then use the "lspci -v" command and copy it here so we can see

[Jos]

I put in the "su" command and then the root password, but when i try the lspci-v command i get the collowing message.

bash:lspci-v: no such file or directory

[beagle2]

You missed out a space, it's lspci -v not lspci-v

[Jos]

Tried that also, i get the same error except that is says "lspci: no such file or directory" instead of "lspci-v:no such file or directory.

[beagle2]

Make sure you have pciutils package installed, lspci is part of that package.

[Jos]

Forgive my newbishness, but i'm unaware of how to do that.

[beagle2]

Ok, try kudzu -p as root ( su - then password) and see if your card appears under class:NETWORK. (Use su - when logging in as root not just su and try lspci -v)