ifconfig -a doesn't show the Microsoft MN-510 that I just installed as wlan0. But, under hard drake it shows up as a scanner! On boot it says it can't sync with it because a cable is unplugged. I built the wlan 2.1 (i think, whichever is the newest pre20) because the card is a prism 2.5 usb. The card has a solid power light and a flashing link light. I'm pretty sure thats what it does when it can't find a network.
I'll post some of the files I made later... I just wanted to see if anyone could see something blatant I missed setting it up with that info.... and yeah, im a noob (single tear).
thanks!

(the machine is a celeron 1.4@1.5, 384 ram, 120gig HD, radeon 9000)

I'm on the same boat here. I got it to work under mandrake 9.2, 128bit encryption WEP, infrastructure. I tried to do the same for 10, was impossible.

help?

I got an Xbox so I had to move my router next to that computer anyway. I still had no dice.... but i noticed the rpmdrake wireless tools package.

I hate being a n00b, but i also noticed the wireless tools. I opened the following mandrakeexpert.com incident:

I'm having a bit of a trouble setting up the Microsoft MN-510 Wireless USB adapter. This 802.11b device used to work in 9.2, after doing a clean install of the new 10.0, the harddrake shows it as a scanner. If I try to set up the network with the Wizard(wireless connection), I can't choose the prism2_usb driver because once I choose it and try to autoprobe it, it returns me to the screen prior of selecting the prism2_driver!

more info:
I also did a modprobe wlan0 and got that the p80211_prism2_usb module was not loaded. A modprobe of prism2_usb returned no errors, whatsoever.

Any other heeeeeeeeeeelp?

Cheers

this is what i did:
Installed Mandrake 10.0 without the third party support(which installs kernel 2.4.x)
after the complete install, went to harddrake and installed the kernel sources version 2.6.x. Then, I went to the /etc/modules.conf and modified the line that detected the scanner enabled plug n play from
alias wlan0 p80211_prism2_usb to
alias wlan0 prism2_usb prism2_doreset=1

after that, I went to the www.linux-wlan.org and got the latest (pre20) packages.
tar -zxvf liunx-wlan-ng.bla bla bla.tar.gz
make config(at this point, I answered yes for loading the prism2.5 usb driver... all other answers were the default(pressed enter, enter, enter)
after that, I tried to run
make all
but got an error about a .tmp_versions folder not being found. This is since we haven't compiled our own kernel. You don't have to do it, just go to the linux source code folder, /usr/src/linux and run
make all over there. I just waited like two or three minutes(maybe less) and aborted the process by CTRL-C it.
then I returned to the folder where I decompressed the tar file, ran
make all again and no errors. Then did a
make install and no errors again.
After that I went to the /etc/wlan folder and edited the wlancfg-DEFAULT, saved as wlancfg-SSID, you need to replace the SSID with your current SSIDname. then you edit your new file with your settings(another blog will show its contents). Save it, then run:
modprobe prism2_usb prism2_doreset=1
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=yourssid authtype=opensystem(or sharedkey)
ifconfig wlan0
route add default gw
edited the /etc/resolv.conf file with:

nameserver IP_address of DNS server1
nameserver IP_address of DNS server2
and so on....

if you're running dhcp on your wlan, maybe a ifup wlan0 will work, or install dhcpcd(DHCP client daemon), I haven't tried that one yet.
I also haven't tried to link everything on boot.

Hope this helps,
Kojitux

Well.... I just spent three days trying to install Mdk 10 (No CD burner, had to do it from the HD). And then I had this problem -- I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mandrake recognized the adapter... and... Even in following the steps you laid out kojitux (Which, thank you for posting!), I wasn't able to get it up and running. Despite that, I found Mandrake to be lacking in the areas that I'd come to love in RH 8/9... It just felt... Off, to me. Anyways.... I'm putting RH8 back on, as it's completely stable on my system and I know how to screw it up without hurting it. Best of luck to the both of y'all...