Greetings All,

Total Linux newbie--like total. Anyway, I have a Gateway WGC-220 Wireless card and from some of what I have learned through reading this is supposed to have a chipset that should work with Linux. I have the driver disk, but am not really sure where to go from here.

I've spent many years in a DOS environment with command lines and all that but at the moment at a total lost. Not panicky or pissed, just really eager to get the wireless going. So whatever you could do to help this newbie out sure would be appreciated.

Thanks.

What does the command "iwconfig" return?
Take a look at http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/l...mp11-linux.htm

Thanks for the reply and the link. Took a look and here is what iwconfig returned:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

So where would these settings come from?

This probably means eth0 is your wired ethernet port.

Try the command "ifconfig eth1 up" then "iwconfig" and see if your wireless card is recognized.

ifconfig probably needs to be run as root.

I don't want to sound repetitive (I posted this solution for another thread already today), but...

NDISWRAPPER is a project written for this kind of problem. It lets you use the Window's Wireless driver in Linux. It doesn't work with everything but it is worth a shot. If you try this, please post if it works so that other people can find a solution.