Hello all: I have installed Mandrake9 on a IBM Thinkpad TP23 ( config: Windows XP on had 22GB, Mandrake 22GB, Lucent Winmodem(detected but informed that I need a third party driver), Hitachi DVD-ROM ultrabay, Intel E100 builtin card,DWL-650 wireless card based on Prism2 chipset on pcmcia) with Grub as my boot loader.
This machine does not have a built in wireless card. I installed a workstation with a few additions to the standard install and did the update towards the end of the installation. Now I would like to have my DWL-650 wireless card working. The machine has a built in e100 and it was properly detected. I am new to Mandrake but very familiar to RedHat. I was very happy to note that my card was detected (wlan_cs) but it was the wrong type. So I went to the folder called /3rdparty and found that there were precompiled versions of prism2_cs driver which is what my card uses. I modified the /etc/pcmcia/config file to change the driver for the Intersil Prisim II to read prism2_cs instead of wlan_cs. Also I added on my /etc/modules.conf alias wlan0 prism2_cs I rebooted and my card beeped 2times like before and then I got a steady green light Upon lsmod I found that prism2_cs was loaded and so was p80211 and ds and yenta_socket. Also upon startup the pcmcia notified that it was going to start ./network wlan0 ( this prompted me to add the alias mentioned before, so I did have to reboot before to make this happen). Now when I type iwconfig wlan0 I get no wireless information. My access point is a DL-1000AP with 128 WEP encryption enabled. I read the wlan-ng readme and it looks like a) this driver reads a different set of config files. If so how can I find out what version of the driver I have ( came with mandrake 9). b) Has anyone run into this scenario ? If so could you kindly post what your experiences are. I think I am very close to get it working out of the box but missing some important config files. Maybe they are there in my box but I am just not sure where mandrake puts the files. Also all the files are .gz but when I do a insmod to insert a module it sees to read the gz file and loads it ( kind of different from Red Hat). Thanks Bharath
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