[vox-tech] Advice Needed: Getting 802.11b Wireless Card Recognized

[Jim Lowman]

I've set up an 802.11b wireless network at home, with three Dell 
machines running Windoze.  
For hardware that purports to be plug-and-play, I've spent numerous 
hours playing around
trying to get it running.  Owing to being a novice at network concepts, 
it probably works more
by accident than by anything I did purposely.

Anyway, to cut to the chase, I have a fourth Dell box that I've 
dedicated to Linux, and have
RH 8 running.  The wireless NIC is a D-Link DWL-650, which is on the RH 
8 HCL.

The card was installed when I installed RH 8, but apparently was not 
detected.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the UNIX/Linux System Administration 
class at UCR, but
I'd rate my experience as a Linux user as novice, being fairly new to 
the OS.

Any pointers on configuring the beast to get it working on my LAN would 
be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance...Jim