[TriLUG] wifi thurs night

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 08:17, H Brett Bolen wrote:
> I want to get my laptop running wireless network.  It is a very
> fresh mandrake 9.0.  
> 
> Has anybody got this running yet?  Do I need newer pccard
> and/or wireless drivers?
> 
> Is the wireless router going to be up tomorrow night?
> 
> The pccard is prism 2.5 -- linksys.  It works with winme, I haven't 
> yet have the time to get it running with linux.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> b

Hi Brett,

The card will work fine out of the box using the wavlan or orinoco
drivers.  However, if you would prefer to use the wlan-ng (next
generation) drivers, which are reportedly more stable, you need
an rpm that unfortunately didn't make it into the distribution.
I can send you the rpm, though (as soon as I dig it up :) and
instructions on getting your wireless card up and running on 
Mandrake 9.0.  I've been through the process twice now (once
for myself, and once helping Mike Johnson) and it's not that
hard to get setup (basically, the only thing is realizing
that the wlan-ng drivers create a wlan0 device instead of an
eth0 device, and then remembering to restart pcmcia and
network; everything else is handled by the rpm).

Tanner
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