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Lou,
Not Mandrake 9.0 but this may be of help...
I just did a clean install of RedHat 8.0 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 equipped with an Orinoco Silver wifi pc-card. RedHat recognized the card and loaded the drivers for it.
But...
RedHat did not configure the laptop (or network settings) to use the pc-card. That is it did not create a device (eth0) to use the hardware. This may be your problem on Mandrake. I had to go into System 'Settings->Network' (RH8.0 running Gnome2) and 'Add...' the device selecting Orinoco from the wireless hardware list (which showed that the Orinoco pc-card was installed on my laptop).
Then I had to configure the device settings appropriately for my wireless network (I have a SMC 2655W access point providing DHCP). So I had to add the wifi and network information, click 'Activate' and it lit right up! Be carefull of the wifi settings such as 'Channel', 'SSID', and 'Key' (if you are using encryption).
Not automatic but far less painless than when I set it up under RH7.3.
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:13:52 -0500
John McElroy <jmcelroy@macelroy.net> wrote:
> I have also use the "pcmcia-cs" package successfully on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 in conjunction with an Lucent Orinoco Siver wifi card. Lucent also had a Linux driver I downloaded but I don't remember if I used it or if I used the built in support in pcmcia-cs (I think the later). Worked perfectly once installed and configured but it took some doing on my part. I'll check my notes to see if I have anything further to offer.
>
> Also, use the "iwconfig" package/utility to setup and check the configuration of the card/driver.
>
> "wireless-tools" is also a decent text/curses based utility for setting up and configuring you wireless access point.
>
> All should be available on freshmeat.net (or via apt in debian possibly).
>
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:22:16 -0500 (EST)
> Martin DiViaio <scatterbrained@usermail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Does the kernel (or cardmgr) recognize the card? If so, as what?
> >
> > Chances are, the driver module for the card is not loading when you insert
> > the card. This could be because the module is not installed or the card is
> > not recognized to run with one of the existing modules.
> >
> > See http://www.80211-planet.com/tutorials/article.php/953531 for a brief
> > tutorial and links to other resources.
> >
> > If you think that the card is 100% hardware based and only needs a basic
> > driver to communicate; there are a couple of generic ethernet drivers in
> > pcmcia-cs you can try to get the card up and running. Setting that up is
> > fairly easy but non-trivial.
> >
> > I've never used the kernel's internal pcmcia support (I'm use to pcmcia-cs
> > and feel it's more mature/stable) so I couldn't say what is available or
> > how to force it to load.
> >
> >
> > On the 16th day of November in the year 2002 you wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:38:36 -0500
> > > From: Louis Dallara <ldallara@comcast.net>
> > > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.20
> > > Subject: [PLUG] WiFI config
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello;
> > >
> > > Can any help me with some basics on configuring a wireless card (generic
> > > band with no web purport)
> > > for Mandrake 9.0. on a Dell Isp 7000 laptop.
> > >
> > > The card powers up and transmits in the pcmica slot, but has no hardware
> > > configuring.
> > >
> > > Any help will be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Lou Dallara
> > >
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