[TriLUG] Wavelan wireless card

[Mike Johnson]

Thomas [thomas at tbeckett.com] wrote:
 
> 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.

Wireless is working fine on my Mandrake 10.0 laptop.  The one hitch I
ran into was that wireless-tools wasn't installed.  Once I added that,
all was happy.  I never ran the little wizard thingie (they give my
hives), instead I edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
directly and set it thusly:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

Mike
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