On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:15 -0400, Scott wrote:
> BTDTGTTS (Been there, done that, got the tshirt.) First, I downloaded
> the firmware and driver for the 2200 instead of the 2100, a typo that
> I
> missed--one is iwi and I forget the other, the wrong one. Then, when I
> finally figured that part out (Hrrm, why isn't it seeing the card?) I
> cursed for another 45 minutes before realizing that I'd transposed the
> first two letters of the password to the network. :)
>
Ouch. I did something similar with the "new" router here. I used a
passphrase that originally had no caps in it, for testing. Then in one
of the iterations of testing, I introduced a capital letter by accident
in the router interface. I beat my head against the wall for probably
20 mins over it, looking strictly at the client machine as the fault of
course.
> Yup, very simple, the command is usually a 1 liner if they don't have
> a
> GUI to do it, which Mandrake has, I believe.
They do, it's actually really easy. Went through this on the other
half's laptop again last night. This time with a linksys card. And
right before the HD failed, so I get to do it again tonight too. *sigh*
Sometimes I'm not sure why we play with these things.
Go to the Computer Management screen, select Network and Internet
settings, select wireless, then Mdk will tell you that it needs to
install the wpa-supplicant package, and does it. Then when the wireless
screen opens, you have the choice of the native driver (if available)
and the "windows driver". If you chose windows driver, it will prompt
again, letting you know that it needs to install ndiswrapper. Once
that's done, it will ask for the .inf file for the windows driver, which
you should have downloaded and unzipped. Point it to that, and the next
step is to select your AP, and enter the WPA key. Done.
I don't think that's many more steps than if you buy a new wireless card
and have to install the drivers...
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