On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:17, H Brett Bolen wrote: > I want to get my laptop running wireless network. It is a very > fresh mandrake 9.0. > > Has anybody got this running yet? Do I need newer pccard > and/or wireless drivers? > > Is the wireless router going to be up tomorrow night? > > The pccard is prism 2.5 -- linksys. It works with winme, I haven't > yet have the time to get it running with linux. > > Anybody have any suggestions? > > b
Hi Brett, The card will work fine out of the box using the wavlan or orinoco drivers. However, if you would prefer to use the wlan-ng (next generation) drivers, which are reportedly more stable, you need an rpm that unfortunately didn't make it into the distribution. I can send you the rpm, though (as soon as I dig it up :) and instructions on getting your wireless card up and running on Mandrake 9.0. I've been through the process twice now (once for myself, and once helping Mike Johnson) and it's not that hard to get setup (basically, the only thing is realizing that the wlan-ng drivers create a wlan0 device instead of an eth0 device, and then remembering to restart pcmcia and network; everything else is handled by the rpm). Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.
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