I am haveing problems trying to get my motorola wu830g usb network adapter working with mandriva linux 2006 i am very new to linux and mandriva. i seen so many things on ndiswrapper i am lost and don't know where to start so if someone could please help me out anyway i would really appreciate it.... i want to use mandriva and i really like it, but if i can't get my wireless adapter to work with it i really have no reason to have it but to play games with.


thanks if you need my email address to walk me through some stuff ask for it
THANKS!!!!

First, your best bet when looking for help with anything, expecially linux, is to google search for it. Thats how I found this thread.
I found a lot of info about the wireless adapter on a USB port. I have one too and thought it was going to work "out of the box". But no. I think we are going to have to find patches for the kernel and build a new kernel. I don't look forward to that. Never done it.

wow that was jibberish to me still new at this but if you could help that would be very cool!!!!

OK, you need to communicate a little more clearly. What was "jibberish"? That's kind of rude as well, but I wont take it personally. Do you know how to Google? patch? build a kernel?

I found some good doc on www.linux-wlan.org/docs, but I have not been able to try it out yet. First we have to make sure the wu830g is supported in linux. BTW, what release of linux are you running? Are you opposed to using SUSE or RedHat??

I didn't mean anything personally i just meant building a kernel and patching is jibberish to me.
I am running Mandriva Linux 2006. I will go check out the site you posted but as for yahooing or googleing i wouldn't know what to search for... i know the chipset is envara wind502u, but envara is no longer around so that is about as far as i got. I uninstalled ndiswrapper and tried reinstalling a new version and got bunch of errors when i try to setup the actual wireless connection. can you post attatchments here??? if not refer to my other postings at http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=28885