Hi, I am new to Mandriva (well, Linux in general really, so bear with me) and I'm having trouble connecting to my wifi network with it. I have everything set up on my router's end (that computer runs off of XP) and my Mandriva seems to be able to read my usb wifi receiver (it gives the name of the usb wifi receiver at the network connections), but when I go to view the wifi connections, my wifi network never shows up, so I try to put it in manually, it then tells me it's configured, then I go back to see the connections and it isn't connected to the wifi network, and I put the name and WEP key in correctly. Can you guys help?

Try this first:
You might have to use 'eth1' instead of 'wlan0', depending on how your system names the devices (some call the wireless ethernet card wlanN, some ethN, where N is a number from zero up). Either it prints networks close by (driver and device work), it says interface does not support scanning (wrong device or driver not working) or prints another sort of error which usually means you don't have the right driver loaded for the hardware.

Once you get that working (i.e. results of networks nearby), you should be able to connect using your favourite software.