hi
I just install mandrake 9.0 and my orinoco wireless card don't work.

I execute ifconfig -a
I get
eth1 Link encap: Ethernet HWadd 00:02:2D:32:E1:B0
Broadcast Multicast MTU:1500 Metric:1
Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Tx packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueulen:100
Rx bytes:0 (0.0 b) tx bytes:9568(9.3kb)
interrupt:3 base address:0x100

when I execute iwconfig
it says, command not find

then I try lsmod
is see, wvlan_cs 23072 unused
when I reboot my laptop, the kernel say bring up eth1 interface
please help

<by aap>

Hi. I'm not on the development team.

To make your orinoco card work, you have to do this (tested on 9b4):

edit /etc/pcmcia/config, find the line for your card, replace wvlan_cs with orinoco_cs. or do global search-replace if that's easier for you.

edit /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/network.pm, fix typo "orinico_cs" -> "orinoco_cs".

Then go into drakconnect. Choose expert mode and autodetect. Your card will not be on the list. Choose "prev." Instead of going back, it will quit the driver configuration and should ask for network parameters for orinoco_cs including wireless stuff. Proceed from here as normal and you should be in business.

By the way, the prism2_cs driver probably will work better, but drakconnect doesn't understand it yet. Working on it, at least until Mandrakesoft tells me they are.

I want to say thank you to anyone who has provided help for me to configure my wireless card.

It sounds like you got it working. I had a similar problem also with an orinoco card and MDK 9.0. Unfortunatly for me the only solution I found was only having one network card in the machine at a time. The problem seemed to be with switching one card to access the inet after one had already been set to do so, it didn't seem to like doing this and I had to remove all the config created by drakconnect before I could get the card to work. I still have that problem but at least now I know how to work around it. Do you have a better solution?
Thanks!

actually, I did not have a chance to configure my wireless card under mandrake. I have it configure easily under redhat 8.0