[TriLUG] Wavelan wireless card

[Thomas]

Jason Tower wrote:
> i've had similar trouble getting my wireless card working with mandrake 
> 10.  so while this does nothing to help you out, at least you don't 
> have to feel alone :-)

Thanks, Jason!  After spending another week poking and googling around, 
I have the impression that this is a not-uncommon problem.  Yet I have 
found no ready solution, either.  I'm not a hacker but I'm no dummy 
either, and after trying the wizard every which way and tweaking config 
files directly, I'm still stumped.  Perhaps I should start over with 
Fedora or some Debian offshoot.

TaB



> On Thursday 26 August 2004 23:54, Thomas wrote:
>>After a hiatus of several years, I have taken a deep breath and once
>>again plunged into the world of Linux.  I installed Mandrake 10.0 on
>>my Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop this week without too much trouble.  A
>>few things need tweaking, hopefully simple issues that will help me
>>up the learning curve.
>>
>>Anyhow, the first issue I need to address is turning out not to be so
>>simple.  I can't get my Lucent/Orinoco/Agere/Proxim/Wavelan wireless
>>LAN card to work.  The OS recognizes the card and correctly
>>identifies it in the configuration panel.  When I use the config
>>wizard to get it working, it asks for some parameters that I am
>>unfamiliar with.  It wants to know "RTS/CTS" and "fragmentation".  So
>>far I am leaving those blank.
>>
>>After several days of trying to figure it out on my own, I continue
>>to be stumped.  I've run the network wizard several times with
>>various permutations to no avail.  Sometimes it appears that the card
>>is working, but the OS cannot see it.  I've played with the card
>>manager config file, can't really figure that out.
>>
>>I have also been playing with Knoppix, running from CD-ROM.  It has
>>no trouble using the wireless card, so I know it isn't a hardware
>>compatibility problem.
>>
>>Kindly help this clueless tyro.  Thanks!
>>
>>TaB