Fedore Core 5 and Ndiswrapper

So I’ve upgraded to wireless on my desktop because I’ve gotten to frustrated with having constantly run an ethernet cable from my bedroom through the kitchen to my living room.  I went with a Dlink DWL-G120.It’s a smaller USB 2.0 based network adapter with a long cable so you can move it to get the best possible reception.  The adapter is based on the prism54 chipset that does have some Linux support that is currently in development.  I chose to use Ndiswrapper to use the Windows driver because it will be more stable.

The driver that was included on the CD (Version 2.00) that came with the adapter did work after a little bit of work.  It didn’t work with the latest version of Ndiswrapper,  and the latest Fedora kernel but it did work with Ndiswrapper version 1.18 and kernel version 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5