Tony, Great to see you here! I have used Mandrake since 8.0 on my Toshiba with a D-Link wireless card with no configuration on my part. My D-link card is a prism2 card and i know all prism and prism2 compatible cards are supported out of the box.
I am not sure about how to get your Cisco card to work but i can offer a forum that has helped me out of many a jam at www.justlinux.com . If no one here has a suggestion I would reccomend heading there. The Mandrake site also has a pretty good forum and KB. Don Mangiarelli From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 28 18:29:47 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from debby.belford.net (cust19566.lava.net [64.65.108.110]) by lists.hosef.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BE61B01CF for <[email protected]>; Fri, 28 May 2004 18:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from belford.net (titanium.belford.net [10.0.1.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by debby.belford.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54831AB4B9 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 28 May 2004 08:29:08 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:29:11 -1000 From: "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040414 Debian/1.6-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LUAU] Mandrake 10.0 + Cosco 350 = 0 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list <[email protected]> List-Id: Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list <luau.lists.hosef.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau> List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:29:47 -0000 tony clapes wrote: > Aloha from another Linux-using lawyer. AM running Mandrake 10.0. On my > IBM T20 laptop, I've had trouble with wireless internet access. > Experienced similar problems with 9.2. > During the install process, the network-install module does not see the > Cisco 350 pcmcia wireless adapter. Manual install does not succeed. > Everything else seems to install ok. After reboot, I see that the > pcmcia service is running, but when I "enable pcmcia" from the KDE > panel, the 350 is not recognized. The lights on the adapter are off. I am curious to know what modules are loaded. As root, can you type lsmod? You should see airo and/or airo_cs. Modprobe airo if you do not see it. Let us know the results of this step. I have found a number of sites that deal with this. It will work. If you don't want to mess with all this, bring it by the workshop at McKinley on Saturday and we'll have a go at it. See our calendar at http://www.hosef.org --scott This guy seems to have wrestled with it. http://www.kismetwireless.net/archive.php?mss:92:200203:iboooeilkanfpahfnnnh Looking at Cisco's website, http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/wireless/airo_350/350cards/linux/instlcfg/icglchp3.htm they appear to have a driver, configuration software, and well-documented instructions for installing this card in Linux. The document seems dated, but the steps are solid. If the modules for your card are now part of the kernel, this step will not be needed. According to this thread, they appear to be part of the kernel. http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200301/msg00000.html These guys use it with Mandrake, and they did some cool stuff. http://www.mrx.com.au/wireless/AironetModifications.htm Star Log - January 2002: Well at last we have our masts up and we have a permanent 11Mbps link. We have installed Mandrake Linux onto laptops, and use these for the Cisco Wavelan cards. The Laptops run the security and act as gateways to the other computers on our network. Also now that we have seen some heavy rain, we have proved that the link is stable in most weather conditions (only fog to go... ). Signal strength varies from 56% to 48% during the day, and I've seen it as low as 26% during a torrential downpour. Link quality ranges from 92% to 98%. Pretty good results considering we don't have line of sight and are transmitting with 100mW of RF!
