I can't browse the internet because my fedora 8 distro is not able to find and activate my PCI network adapter.

I'm using a Asus WL-138g V2 Wireless PCI Adapter, and the fedora installation process seems not to check, find and activate it work properly (as in windows xp I were used to see).

what should I do? i tried also with xubuntu, ubuntu, debian and linux mint distros...but nothing to do with all of them...

I tried using ndiswrapper but i'm not sure to used it properly...

reading the asus quick start guide, it says that i should use Red Hat 7.1 or higher, is it possible I can't use my loved ubuntu OS?

thanks in advance for everybody how wants to help me

You are going to have to find out what chipset the device uses. Then see if the manufacture is offering support for it. Or if there is a distro with support included. Otherwise you can maybe use ndiswrapper.

Use wired access until you figure it out, or use another computer. Or another alternative for any computer wi-fi is to use a wireless bridge. It has it's own hardware-software so it will work with any machine-OS that has a working ethernet adapter.

Not familiar with your device. Don't know if you can make it work. Also use Google. Here is some info.
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...l=WL-138g%20V2
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/
http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200612/200612.htm
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UT...nI2wAAAA%40%40

Teckk i really appreciated yours suggestions, many many thanks.

anyway I'm a very newbie and when I tried to follow your instructions i met some troubles...

when i tried to execute the command "make":

[alex@localhost ndiswrapper-1.50]$ make
make -C driver make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/Desktop/driverloader/ndiswrapper-1.50/driver'Makefile:24: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/Desktop/driverloader/ndiswrapper-1.50/driver' make: *** [all] Error 2

when i tried to execute the command "modprobe ndiswrapper":

[alex@localhost ndiswrapper-1.50]$ modprobe ndiswrapper bash: modprobe: command not found


finally I think i wasn't able to load ndiswrapper because of too many errors...how should i proceed?