RE: [newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
Thanks Derek ! Yes the card appears to have been recognised as the machine beeps twice during boot and the power light at least comes on in the card. The driver loaded is wvlan_cs and I have set the parameters you indicate, these are written to /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 I'll have another play, thanks again ! Ian -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2003 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:15 am, Ian Moran wrote: Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian A quick Google reveals that the Compaq WLAN110 is an OEMed Lucent Orinoco card. As such it ought to be recognised OK by Mandrake 9.0 When you boot you should hear some 'beeps' when the pcmcia card is recognised. Make sure you have the 'wireless-tools' RPM installed and then go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre. The wizard should recognise your card and install either the wvlan_cs driver, or the orinoco driver (they both work) When in the wizard you will be prompted for the wireless parameters. The most important ones are MODE - Managed for use with an Access Point or Ad-Hoc for no access point ESSIS - set this the same as the other wireless cards in your net. KEY - Your encryption key. Must be the same as your other cards enter as either a series of Hex numbers (aabbccddeeff or aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ) or as an ascii string ( s:ascii_string ) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
Brilliant, it works, was missing the s:string in the gui, cheers ! Ian -Original Message- From: Ian Moran Sent: 06 February 2003 17:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Derek ! Yes the card appears to have been recognised as the machine beeps twice during boot and the power light at least comes on in the card. The driver loaded is wvlan_cs and I have set the parameters you indicate, these are written to /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 I'll have another play, thanks again ! Ian -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2003 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 1:15 am, Ian Moran wrote: Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian A quick Google reveals that the Compaq WLAN110 is an OEMed Lucent Orinoco card. As such it ought to be recognised OK by Mandrake 9.0 When you boot you should hear some 'beeps' when the pcmcia card is recognised. Make sure you have the 'wireless-tools' RPM installed and then go through the networking wizard in Mandrake Control Centre. The wizard should recognise your card and install either the wvlan_cs driver, or the orinoco driver (they both work) When in the wizard you will be prompted for the wireless parameters. The most important ones are MODE - Managed for use with an Access Point or Ad-Hoc for no access point ESSIS - set this the same as the other wireless cards in your net. KEY - Your encryption key. Must be the same as your other cards enter as either a series of Hex numbers (aabbccddeeff or aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff ) or as an ascii string ( s:ascii_string ) HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Compaq WL110 Wireless Lan card Mandrake 9.0
Could someone please offer guidance/pointers as to how to get this card working under Mandrake 9.0 ? Ian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
