I have an eMachines 5312 Laptop. I am running Mandrake 10.0 and i cant figure out how to get the wireless drivers to work. I can't even get it to work under XP pro, it just keeps telling me to enable the radio even after I click enable radio and then apply it. Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks
-Borris

To enable the wireless module, you first have to hit Fn+F2. Under Windows, the little icon in the systray will change to let you know that it's on--under Linux, there's no such thing.

Now, for the Linux drivers: Download http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/e/sedlabs1...stall1.tar.bz2 , and read the included text file. Basically, somebody wrote a wrapper for the Windows drivers that makes them work under Linux. That archive has the Windows driver file, and instructions on what to do with it.

Every time you reboot, you have to load the ndiswrapper kernel module, and then load the driver itself, with:

(or you could automate that somehow)

Then you have to get your card talking to your AP.

Assuming you have a DHCP server set up, doing:
should do it. Ignore any "bad filename" errors from dhcpcd and just hit enter again. Run to confirm that you have an IP address. If that doesn't work, replace "any" with your SSID.