Wireless cards need a bit more information than an IP address before they can
start working.
As a minimum they need an ESSID name which defines their 'workgroup', and a
wireless encrytion key so you do not broadcast all your personal data about
the neighbourhood.
You can set these while the
This error occurs on a sony vaio r505te running mandrake 8.2beta with a USR
wireless lan card ( using wvlan_cs module ) and an intel pro 100 integrated
card ( eepro 100 module ). The integrated ethernet card works, the wireless
card does not(does not load at boot and does not get an ip address