Found this on using the wlan-ng drivers under Mandrake 9.0. Any comments or follow-ups more than welcome - I have not tried it yet. I have attached a second email below (a reply to some of my questions)
-----Original Message----- From: James Campbell [mailto:jcampbell@;omnigon.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lwlan-user] WMP11/Mandrake 9.0 quick 'n dirty howto. Hello, I've seen a few people asking for help on getting the Linksys WMP11 pci card to work with Mandrake 9.0/gcc 3.2 1: Get the latest Linux kernel. I suggest 2.4.19, as its pretty stable. See the appropriate kernel howto's for information on compiling it if you need help. 2: Remove the default directory that Mandrake likes to have for the kernel includes. This lives at /usr/include/linux. 3: Re-point that to the kernel you just installed. ln -s /usr/src/wherever you put your kernel/include/linux /usr/include/linux 4: Reboot into the new kernel. 5: Download and unpack linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4.tar.gz 6: Change into the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 directory, type: make mrproper 7: Configure it: ./Configure Say no to PCMCIA Card Services, no to PLX9052 PLX, yes to Prism 2.5 native PCI, no to Prism USB devices. You should be able to accept the default responses for the rest. 8: make all, make install If you see no major errors, you should be fine. 9: Test it out on an open system: modprobe prism2_pci wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=yourssid authtype=opensystem ifconfig wlan0 yourip route add default gw yourgateway It should work now. As always, read the documentation. NOTE: Make sure you are using the latest Linksys WMP11 Firmware, 1.4.2. Update it through the Windows utility, or for the really brave, the "use at your own risk/completely unsupported/could possibly fry your card and its not AVS's fault" prism2dl utility in linux. ----- Follow Up ----- > I presume this will work for internal Dell Truemobile PRISM2 based cards > too? > Yes, that should work for any internal Prism2.5 based PCI card. With the same assumption that you are running the newest firmware, etc. > Do I have to remove that directory? > You don't have to, as Mandrake 9.0 runs a patched 2.4.19 kernel. But it is always a good idea to have the /usr/include/linux header files match the current kernel. You could probably skip the first few steps, I just don't like using the default kernels provided by a distro.
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