Hello,
I am having difficulty getting my wireless card to work with Mandrake 10.0. I have a AOpen AOI-703F 802.11b card with a AMDtek chipset. NDISwrapper loaded the windows driver with no problem. Modprobe worked just fine. IWconfig sees the card and gives me stats. I have configured my card correctly for my network. IFconfig sees the card and gives no errors when I give the command ifconfig wlan0 up. Once I do this I can see wlan0 in my control panel. It will not pick up an IP address from my dhcp server. I tried setting a static IP, and still nothing. Any ideas or something I may have missed?

If you set a static IP, did you also set up the gateway with the route command? That is something DHCP does automatically, so if you set a static IP, you need to do it yourself. Check out man route for details. The other thing you may need to do is edit your /etc/resolv.conf file to insclude your ISP nameserver IP addresses.

I have it set up using dhcp. The problem is not actually with the gateway. I am unable to communicate with anything on my internal network, including the router. My ping response is an immediate "destination host unreachable".

OK, at this point your going to have to post some outputs. Check in your error logs (/var/log/system and /var/log/messages) and see if there are errors from the DHCP attempt. Also, you may want to post the output of iwconfig and ifconfig.

If you want to try, setting a static IP is pretty easy and may get you functioning. If iwconfig shows that your card is properly set up, you need to do three things.

First, edit your /etc/resolv.conf file to include your ISP's nameservers. Each namserver should have its own line like this:

nameserver 1.2.3.4 only replace 1.2.3.4 with the real IP address of the nameserver

Second, give your card an IP address with ifconfig. The command is
ifconfig 5.6.7.8 where 5.6.7.8 is the IP address you want to use

Lastly, set your router's IP address as the gateway with the route command

route add default gw 3.4.5.6 and replace 3.4..5.6 with your router's IP

ok. I'll give that a try and update shortly.