On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 3:36 am, Tania Morell wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a new laptop this week (myfirst) and installed mandrake 8.2 on > it. My netgear 401 wireless card is hot swappable so when I unplug/plug > it in, I get a couple messages from cardmgr on console listing the > manufacturer and model of the card.. but when I cat > /var/lib/pcmcia/stab. It says both pcmcia slots are 'empty'. Man page > states that a low pitch sound means cardmgr failed to load the driver, > so I'm assuming the low pitch sound means it has failed? Can anyone > give me a couple quick tips for getting networking running on this > thing? Or point me in the right direction to some online info? I've > been searching for a couple hours with no luck. =) > > Thanks guys, > -T Did you run the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre? That will find and install most pcmcia wireless cards. It should prompt you for the wireless options. The ones that matter most are mode:(managed or unmanaged) and encryption key: (format is s:ascii_text)
You can check operation of the wireless card with the console command iwconfig You might also need to install the wireless-tools RPM If you find the card forgets its configuration the second time you boot up just put the appropriate iwconfig statement in /etc/rc.local HTH derek
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