Hey guys.

I'm using a dell truemobile 1300 (broadcom) wifi card in mandrake 2k5 le.

I believe I've got the ndiswrapper driver configured right, and i've used iwconfig to set managed mode, essid, and key. My router's logs are showing that it is successfully associating with the card. When i hit it with ifconfig wlan0 up or dhclient wlan0 (iwconfig shows that it is, indeed wlan0), however, it cannot get an ip address. I've configured mandrakes firewall to allow wlan0 traffic (i believe, it doesnt give confirmation that my settings changed). This was the dumb gui wizard though, so I don't really know how to check if it worked. I've followed the steps in ndiswrapper's installation wiki, as well as some on another site for setting up truemobile1300's with ndiswrapper(i'd post the link but i cant until i have 5 posts). This included steps configuring ifcfg-wlan0 that i didn't really understand but followed anyway.

I'm so close i can taste it. Any ideas why no ip?

Thanks for your time.

just noticed this should be in wireless networking.

oops.

hrm..can it get moved?