Hi. Appologies if any of this seems stupid but I'm pretty new to the setup side of using Linux.
I'm a home user. We have a one wlan access point on 128bit wep
I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on my laptop( a rather old one: Compaq Armada E500)
All went well, and during the install I chose the "wireless" option, it saw my card, recognised the type etc. I entered the ssid and the encryption key but i didn't understand the other bits so i left them blank.
So once the install was finished networking was down
the card seems to be in a recognised but not active state. The lights are on, but only faintly. wiconfig says: (I can't paste it in )
eth01 NOT READY! ESSID
ff/any
Mode: managed CHannel: 10 Access Point 00:00:00:00:00:
and the rest is all zeros
(the values that is)
wpriv -a gives a lot of:
Interface doesn't accept ioctrl...
dgb_get_oid (88EF): Input/output error
style errors for eth1 (which is the wlan card)
the prism54 site is down, and i have NO idea where to go from here
my card is: 3CRWE154G72) 3Com® OfficeConnect® Wireless 11g PC Card
my access point is: 3CRWE454G72 OfficeConnect Wirless 11g Access Point (3com)
both card and access point work fine on w2k & xp
any other info i've forgoten let me know
i hope you can help
Thanks