Ok, heres another Noob again. By I bet hearing that gets old. Well this is what I have. I have Mandrake 10 installed in me trusty laptop. All went well and

everything works. But, now I am trying to get my wireless up and running on this baby.

I am knew to the command line and Linux. Playing about a month and trying to cram. Trying to retire Windows XPoop. Love what I can do so far in Linux.

Anyway, I have two wireless cards. D-Link DWL-650G and a Netgear 511. I prefer to use my Netgear card as my whole system runs Netgear. From what I understand

the Prism 54 is in Mandrake and supports the Netgear card. However, When I boot up, the computer gets to eth0 and fails and then goes to eth1 and sits

forever and then will say most times, fail. No flashing lights. If I remove the card and boot, I only get fail on eth0 and the eth1 passes.

Now if I insert the D-link 650 card and boot I get flashing lights on this puppy but thats it. But drivers...? Don't know. I would prefer the Netgear card.

Can someone walk me through getting the Netgear running or the D-Link? I would appreciate any help I can get on this. AS I said I don't know squat about

Linux. I can do some command line stuff. But, as I said I'm tryiing to learn quickly. I'm like a kid with a new toy.

The Specs. Can never have too much info:

ECS732G Laptop, or at least the board is anyway.
P4 2.66GHz Processor
Toshiba 60GB Hard Drive. Dual boot with GRUB to Mandrake or WIN XP Poop
30GB for Mandrake
QSI CDRW/DVD SBW-242
512MB DDRAM2700
ATI 64MB Mobility Radeon 9000
USB 2.0
IE 1394
HSP56 MR 56K Modem
ENE CB1410 CardBus Controller
SIS 900 Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
SIS 7012 Sound Chip


Thanks,

John a.k.a scoobs

I thought there is already a thread on it?

Sorry don't want to start getting people upset, but, nobody replied to my earlier posts and I am quite eager to get my laptop working. All else works except for this and it is a royal pain dragging a 100' network cable around the office and home.

John

I own a toshiba laptop with a netgear card running Slackware 9.1. The easiest (and only) way I managed to get the card working was by installing the Linuxant DriverLoader (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader.../downloads.php). It does require a license, but you get 30 days free to evaluate before purchase.

Cheers
Jboz

I've tried the Linuxant. Initially when I tried it without any cards in it I was able to access through browser, of course it said there was no card. It told me to insert the card or try refresh. I did that but refreshing nor inserting would get me anywhere. I cannot boot up with the Netgear card. No how no way. I've tried the prism54s but I really must be doing something wrong...?

Thanks though

John

Hi John,

read your previous posts again and remembered that when I first started out with Linux (Redhat 9, later Slackware 9.1 which runs faster), I had all sorts of trouble with my firewire card (which I believe you are also using). I discovered that it also confused my PCMCIA settings for the second port used by wifi card. The only way I solved the problem was by avoiding it i.e., take the firewire card out and not use it at all. Obviously not an ideal solution, but I didn't need my firewire and I needed my wifi card :-)

if you haven't already tried this, boot the laptop without the firewire card and see if the eth0/1 loads correctly. If not then you'd probably have some incorrect settings in your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file (also check out the start-up script in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1).

good luck.

Cheers
Jboz