smc 2532w-b wireless card on fedora 3.2

I'm an extremely inexperienced linux user. I would like to get my smc 2532w-b wireless card working with fedora v3. 2 running on dell inspiron 5150. what does it take to make it work? SMC said they do not have linux drivers for the card.

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I'm an extremely inexperienced linux user. I would like to get my smc 2532w-b wireless card working with fedora v3.2 running on dell inspiron 5150. what does it take to make it work? SMC said they do not have linux drivers for the card. I feel like a duck out of water with this OS.

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Hi mjstoneo3 and welcome!
 
According to this, you should be good to go as it uses the prism2 chipset. Did the install not find and configure your card? Are you using an 802.11g router that is supposed to be backward compatible to 802.11b?
 
Did you run the network configurator yet? If not, open a terminal and "become root user" by going:
 
su [enter]
 
It will ask for you password. Enter it and press enter. Then go:
 
system-config-network [enter]
 
And use this utility to configure your card. Are you using encryption? turn it off from your router until you get the card configured. See if any of this helps, then check back and let us know where you are, (or aren't)
 
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