When a wireless pcmcia card is fitted after initial install the wireless configuration gets corrupted.
1/ Install Mandrake with pcmcia wireless card - All wireless opts stored in /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 OK. Card works. Wireless card can be hot swopped with Ethernet card later without any reconfiguration. Works real nice. 2/Install Mandrake with pcmcia Ethernet card. LAN parameters stored in ifcfg-eth0 as expected. Replace LAN card with wireless card, and go through the wizard of drakconnect to input wireless parameters. On clicking 'Finish' to the wizard wireless parameters are written to ifcfg-eth0 and wireless card works. But on clicking 'OK' to exit drakconnect the original ifcfg-eth file is written back again and wireless card stops working. 3/ If drakconnect is exited with'Cancel' instead of 'OK' the wireless card continues working, but hot swopping does not work because the wizard insists on saving the MAC address of the pcmcia card in ifcfg-eth0 and will reject any other card. derek
