hi, i installed mandrake 10.1 last nite and have been trying to set up my wireless card all day. i installed ndiswrapper fine, used it to install the driver i have for my card(WMP54G). when i use ndiswrapper -l it says "rt2500 hardware present" also, when i try iwconfig it doesnt show that i have wlan0, which i think could be causing some problems, but im a noob when it comes to linux. if i use the MCC to add a new connection, it asks if i want to install the driver manually, and when i scroll down to rt2500 and hit ok, it just starts an endless loop of asking me to install driver manually. any help is MUCH aprecciated, this is driving me nuts.
thanks

ok, im an idiot. i did everthing from the root console before. i uninstalled ndiswrapper, then used the su command to log in as root. reinstalled wrapper and now is says driver and hardware present. but when i use modprobe ndiswrapper it says and when i do iwconfig it only lists and any ideas?

That bit you do have to so as root. If you are just using su, you might try su - and see if that helps.

you sir are a lifesaver. for future reference, whats the difference between using su and su - ?

If I understand the man page correctly, adding the - means that environment variables are loaded. If you leave the - off, you are essentially trying to run root with a normal user's preferences and environtment. My experience has always been that funky things can happen when you do that, so now I always su -, since that is more like logging in as root.