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Sorry I havent tested this with Mandrake.

I had a lot of trouble getting this to work in Mandrake. In the tutorial previously posted it is for a Redhat/Fedora install, and has some steps I couldn't complete using Mandrake.

I ended up getting the firmware and card to boot up, but I cannot get it to boot up without me modprobing each time I want to use the card. If you're looking for a wireless card, don't get this one.

In an older version of Mandrake I managed to get the Host_ap drivers to work. The card has a habbit of "forgetting" its onboard firmware during power cycles.
I never managed to get the firmware to update in Linux but only in windows. So to restart the card I would have to boot into windows for firmware update then back into linux before the card would work again.
During a recent upgrade to Fedora Core 4 this success ended. The Host_ap drivers compile properly and all appears successful but the card will no longer work. After a great deal of time trying alternate methods (ndiswrapper included) I have given up on making this card work under FC4. (The card does still work under Windows) If anyone has an FC4 howto for this card I would like to see it.
My bargain purchase has cost me more time that it was worth. Do not buy this card for Windows or Linux!