Setting up a new network connection?
 

I have absolutely no clue how to do this. I think my wireless card is working but I only have a network setup for my onboard RJ-45 hole. I would like to setup the card to work so I could completely use linux and ditch windows :). Please help, thank you to all who reply :D

you'll need to find out what driver your network hardware takes, and then if it isn't loaded, load it with:

#modprobe <driver name>

once that's loaded, or if it already is loaded, bring up your ethernet interface:

#ifconfig eth0 up

then you might need to get dhcp going:

#dhcpcd eth0

then see if you have an internet connection:

#ping google.com

if you have a connection, add /sbin/modprobe <driver name> to your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file for it to load automatically at boot.

oh yeah, if your kernel does not support your hardware drivers, you'll have to recompile it. so let's hope it does. :)

I'm pretty sure it does it's just a Orinoco Gold 802.11b pc card ;X . Well I'll give this a try. Hopefully it will work.

Also my main network uses WEP how/where do I enter the key once I have it running?