Encore Wireless PCI not working for Linux

[kryptonite0110]

I have an Encore Wireless PCI card and am running Fedora Core 2. So i installed the drivers using ndiswrapper, but whenever i try to configure the network, my computer freezes. I've tried doing it several ways, using ifconfig and using the built in network configuration tools, and it does detect the card as a wlan0 card, but it just is acting wierd... Any help would be great.

[KeyserSoze]

A few questions to get us started:
1. Exactly what command do you issue that causes the computer to freeze?
2. I don't use fedora, but make sure wireless-tools is installed
3. Did you load the module?

modprobe ndiswrapper

[kryptonite0110]

1. anything that configures the wlan0 card (ie. ifconfig wlan0 up)
2. i assume wireless tools are installed because i've issued iwconfig commands on this system before.
3. i loaded the module but not by using "modprobe ndiswrapper" i just used "ndiswrapper -m" but i've tried it both ways and neither worked.

if this matters, i have been having problems with that motherboard (its and AMD), but it was with one of the ide controllers, i don't think it matters, but it's here just in case...

[IKnowNot]

I’m not using Fedora Core 2 either, but a few other questions might help:

Are you using enforcing mode? ( SELinux )
If so, are you using strict policy?

What are your logs showing?

Maybe one of the Fedora lists can help

[KeyserSoze]

Which chipset does that card have in it?

[kryptonite0110]

my card works now...
I don't really know why, i know i've compiled a 2.6.6 kernel for this machine, but it works even with my old kernel...