Have you tried installing the wireless extensions rpm?
Other than that i have no clue, havent played with wifi on linux.
Rob

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates
>> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 12:53 PM
>> To: Mandrake Expert
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [expert] wireless pain
>> 
>> 
>> I finally went ahead and upgraded from MDK 8.2 to MDK 9.0 on my 
>> laptop (IBM 
>> Stinkpad 1412, Celeron).  It installed just fine and everything 
>> is working OK 
>> except for wireless.  
>> 
>> I have 2 devices to play with: an Orinoco Gold and a Zoomair.  
>> Under 8.2 I had 
>> the Zoomair (prism2) working just fine.  Under 9.0 I find it 
>> impossible to 
>> build the hostap driver and the wlan-ng driver just doesn't work 
>> at all - it 
>> doesn't appear to understand any wireless extension commands so 
>> I cannot set 
>> anything on the card.
>> 
>> Under 9.0, the Orinoco gold card is accepted OK and the wvlan_cs 
>> module loads.  
>> I am able to set channel, mode, etc, with iwconfig.  Problem is, 
>> even though 
>> I set the parameters to Ad-hoc, channel 6, and the proper essid 
>> and "iwconfig 
>> eth0" shows all the settings as what they should be, I get no 
>> communication 
>> with my desktop which has and has had for a long time a fully 
>> working WUSB11 
>> set to Ad-hoc, channel 6, and the proper essid.  They match in 
>> all necessary 
>> settings yet I am unable to ping or communicate between systems at all.
>> 
>> Any ideas?  Any suggestions?  I have tried rebuilding wlan-ng drivers, 
>> altering the wireless.opts file, network.opts file, manually changing 
>> settings, all to no avail.  I even reset my desktop wusb11.  Nothing.  
>> Ad-hoc, same channel, same essid and no communication.
>> 
>> praedor
>> 
>> 

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