On Monday 25 October 2004 09:51, Alexander Ruoff wrote: > Hi all, > > sorry if I bother you with an old topic but so fare I haven't found > anything which really helped me with my problem in the mailing list. > > I have an Dell Inspiron 510m with a Pentium M. The PC is fine apart for > the wireless. 10.1 detects my card but apparently I had to download and > install the firmware of the card as well and now firmware and card are > installed, it's detected but I can't use it. > > Frist thing which is strange is the output for ifconfig: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# ifconfig > eth0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:0D:56:E0:61:15 > inet6 Adresse: fe80::20d:56ff:fee0:6115/64 > G�ltigkeitsbereich:Verbindung > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenl�nge:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b) > Interrupt:11 Basisadresse:0x5000 > > lo Protokoll:Lokale Schleife > inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0 > inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 G�ltigkeitsbereich:Maschine > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenl�nge:0 > RX bytes:11462 (11.1 Kb) TX bytes:11462 (11.1 Kb) > > No wireless... but if I type ifconfig eth1 I get the wireless card: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] minos]# ifconfig eth1 > eth1 Protokoll:UNSPEC Hardware Adresse > 42-4F-C0-00-24-85-04-30-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenl�nge:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > > In my opinion this is strange... > > The card is installed since I get this output under dmesg: > > eth0: no IPv6 routers present > ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' > ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, 0.54 > ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:03.0[A] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7 > ipw2100: 0000:01:03.0: Detected at mem: 0xFCFFE000-0xFCFFEFFF -> > e0f07000, irq: 7 > eth1: Using hotplug firmware load. > > I know I did something right but also something wrong, since I know > nothing about programing, IT or linux (apart using it) I am thankful for > any help and hint you might have > > Alex
You need to install the wireless-tools package from your CD and then run through the network connection Wizard in Mandrake Control Centre and configure it as a wireless connection. You could also configure it with iwconfig from the command line. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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