Finally finally finally!!! I got my dlink 520 revD card working under Linux. This is the first connection this partition has had since moving to Hillview St. When I moved here I had the "brilliant" (or not so brilliant) idea not to run cat5 cable all over my damned house since the DSL modem was going to have to be by the kitchen and my machines in the office on the opposite side of the house. Well, Fedora Core 1 didn't like the wireless B card that I got. I tried ndiswrapper and the windows drivers to no avail — spent at least a week dickin' around trying everyone elses solutions.

This weekend I upgraded to Fedora Core 2 (luckily no Windows XP dual boot problem though I was ready for it) and that didn't seem to help even after reinstalling ndiswrapper and the RT-8180 drivers. So I finally poked around some more and found someone who had had the same problem as I had, but when they updated to the latest ndiswrapper and new XP drivers it worked for them, so going back and forth from laptop to usbkey to desktop I got the new ndiswrapper package installed and the new 8180 drivers and lo and behold …

Now it will just take the frickin' rest of the evening to update everything with yum. Its only been 3 months since this partition has been active. Core 2 looks great though.