since there's too many stuff to write, i think its only appropriate to start this with a little technical stuff, how to get wifi with ndiswrapper on fedora 9, if you somehow using a really weird wireless network card that your distro cant recognize.
First thing you should do after a fresh installation is to install a livna repo
> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm
than update your system
> yum -y update
be patience it will take some time
then get to know your wireless NIC, how? You should know how,
clue:
> lspci, look for Network controller,
download the windows driver and make sure its the xp driver.
extract the newly downloaded driver and > cd, into it, make sure you got that .inf file in that folder.
than install ndiswrapper
> yum -y install ndiswrapper
install the driver xxxx.inf file is the driver
> ndiswrapper -i xxxx.inf
check if its properly installed
> ndiswrapper -l
it will come out something like this
"bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4315) present"
> depmod -a
probe any device that use ndiswrapper "the wireless adapter should be on once you press enter"
> modprobe ndiswrapper
last but not least so you will get wifi every time you start your laptop
> ndiswrapper -ma
there you go, not as hard as you think it would be.
p/s: i done everything on root.
