On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:03, Thinker wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a Gateway Profile 3. For anyone > unfamiliar with this model, take a look at > http://products.gateway.com/products/GConfig/prodDetails.asp? > system_id=prf5m1&seg=sb > > > Anyway, these machines have PCMCIA slots like laptops and I have a 3Com > Wireless card (3CRPAG175) that worked flawlessly when this machine had > Windows XP home on it. The only info I could find was this > http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp? > selected=5&sort=fsize&sku=3CRPAG175. > > We have decided to look into Linux as an alternative to Windows XP for > all of our future workstations. This Profile is being used as a 'test > subject'. The 10/100 Network is working fine as well as everything else > except the wireless card. Can anyone offer any help or advice on how to > get this working? > > > Thanks in advance > > .:Thinker >
The definitive resource: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html The 3COM page refers to the madwifi drivers, stating they do not offer support: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ and Mandrake do a madwifi kernel rpm so just type urpmi madwifi_kernel-2.???? (with your kernel entered, of course) -- ______ Paul 5B8BA
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