I have a sony wireless pcmcia PCwa C150.... how can i get it to work in mandrake linux 10??? pelase help!! i am new to linux and this is the only thing not working.

rob

Its probably not a chipset that is supported by the default Mandrake kernel. Don't worry though, there's 3rd party drivers for everything these days... and when those fail, there's ndiswrapper. Prepare to get your hands dirty though.

Okay, according to the list of all that is holy:

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

This is an Orinoco card!?!?!

Wacky!

If this is true you have the most uber-supported card out there...

Open up a Konsole, Eterm, xterm, whatever, and become root:

su -

Then type the following command:

/sbin/cardctl ident

And post back with what you've got.

Cheers,

Finegan

ok i did that and it says:

Socket 0:
no product info available

Socket 1:
product indo "sony corporation", "PCWA-C150", "Version 01.01"
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function 6 (network)

Yeah, Orinoco card... it should have loaded the orinoco_cs module Is there a listing of "orinoco_cs", "orinoco", and "hermes" from the command:

/sbin/lsmod

Cheers,

Finegan