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# HOW TO : Configure wireless NIC on Fedora 7.0
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/how-to-configure-wireless-nic-on-fedora-70/
- Published: 2007-06-04T02:47:20.000Z
- Updated: 2007-06-04T02:47:20.000Z
- Description: I decided to play around with Fedora to brush up on my Redhat skills. I have been using Ubuntu for some time, but wanted to see...
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- Tags: Linux, Technology, Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

I decided to play around with Fedora to brush up on my Redhat skills. I have been using Ubuntu for some time, but wanted to see what the [newly released](https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-May/msg00009.html?ref=kudithipudi.org) Fedora 7.0 offers. With each new release, Linux is coming closer to becoming an operating system that a normal user can install and start using right away. Gone are the days of plowing through config files to get everything working. Thats why, I was pretty surprised when the wireless card in my laptop didn’t work with the default install. Here’s how I got the card to work in Fedora, using ndiswrapper (An opensource project that enables the usage of Windows drivers in Linux).

- Install kernel headers by running “yum –install kernel-devel”
- Install gcc (compiler) by running “yum –install gcc”
- Download ndiswrapper from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net (make sure to download the latest version)
- Unpack ndiswrapper and run the following commands  
  - make uninstall
  - make
  - make install
- Download the windows drivers (.inf and .sys files) for your wireless card and copy them to a location on your harddrive
- Change the working directory to the folder where the windows drivers have been saved
- Install the drivers by running the following commands  
  - ndiswrapper -i driver\_file\_name.inf
  - ndiswrapper -l  
    - This command should show that the device has been installed and enabled. My output looks like this  
      net5416 : driver installed  
      device (168C:0024) present
- Configure an alias for the wireless card by editing the /etc/modprobe.conf file and adding the line  
  - alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
- Configure NetworkManager to startup automatically by running  
  - chkconfig –level456 NetworkManager on
- Restart your machine and you can start using the wireless card by using the “NetworkManager” applet that starts when you log into the GUI.