Brilliant, it works, was missing the s:string in the gui, cheers !

Ian

>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Moran 
> Sent: 06 February 2003 17:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Thanks Derek ! Yes the card appears to have been recognised 
> as the machine beeps twice during boot and the power light at 
> least comes on in the card.
> 
> The driver loaded is wvlan_cs and I have set the parameters 
> you indicate, these are written to 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0
> 
> I'll have another play, thanks again !
> 
> Ian
> 
> >  
> >  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 06 February 2003 11:20
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:15 am, Ian Moran wrote:
> > > Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to 
> get this 
> > > card working under Mandrake 9.0 ?
> > >
> > > Ian
> > 
> > A quick Google reveals that the Compaq WLAN110 is an OEMed Lucent 
> > Orinoco card. As such it ought to be recognised OK by Mandrake 9.0
> > 
> > When you boot you should hear some 'beeps' when the pcmcia card is 
> > recognised.
> > 
> > Make sure you have the 'wireless-tools' RPM installed and then go 
> > through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre. 
> The wizard 
> > should recognise your card and install either the wvlan_cs 
> driver, or 
> > the orinoco driver (they both
> > work) When in the wizard you will be prompted for the wireless 
> > parameters. The most important ones are MODE - Managed for 
> use with an 
> > Access Point or Ad-Hoc for no access point ESSIS - set this 
> the same 
> > as the other wireless cards in your net.
> > KEY - Your encryption key. Must be the same as your other 
> cards enter 
> > as either a series of Hex numbers (aabbccddeeff or 
> aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ) 
> > or as an ascii string ( s:ascii_string )
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > derek
> > 
> > 
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> > www.jennings.homelinux.net
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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