i am a complete to linux, and so i tried the new mandriva 2006 live. however, the Internet will not work (firefox wont connect) i am having this problem with both a desktop PC and my acer aspire 1672wlmi laptop. i am sorry if this has been answered before but i have searched several forums and have not found anything related to live CD's. i am probably going to be asked for more information regarding what make of wireless adapter on my laptop and the Ethernet on the desktop. the desktop i am using at the moment is plugged into a bt voyager 205 adsl router, if that helps. i am running windows xp home edition Pentium 4 3ghz 512mb ram.

please help, and thank you!

Yup, you're gonna get asked about your network devices Would have expected the Live CD to pick up at least one of them if you've moved between machines. Is this ADSL modem a USB modem, or do you connect to it via an ethernet cable?

the desktop is connected via usb to a BT modem, and the wireless access point is connected to the Ethernet port on the router/modem thing (the BT modem). i'm not sure if it has recognized it or not, i can't access web pages anyway! have tried the hard-drake thing and am presented with a mammoth list of drivers - no idea what one to use, cant see anything obvious! I found my wireless card on device manager, and it said it was a "INPROCOMM IPN2220 Wireless LAN Card". I will only be using the laptop to run mandriva (the wireless one plugged into Ethernet) and i only mentioned the desktop because that didn't work either. thanks for your quick reply!

...i found some information about a "ndis wrapper"? i discovered (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List) that my laptop (or at the least the driver) was supported by this:

Laptop: Acer Aspise 1524 WLMi

* Chipset: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)
* pciid: 17fe:2220
* Driver: Ndiswrapper 1.4-rc2 and driver from planetamd64.com (and the official driver from Acer works, too).
* Other: Works correctly with 64bit system with open access, encryption works (with wpa_supplicant) at least for WPAPSK + TKIP. Other methods untested.

well i downlaoded the driver from the oficial acer website (http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers...k/as_1670.html) and was presented with a load of files to install. however, the ndis wrapper thing that mandriva uses needs to be a .inf file, right? but the only .inf files i could find in the download was a neti2220.inf file in both a Winxp and a Win2k folder. i tried using these in mandriva and it said something like: "could not install neti2220.inf!".

i installed the driver in windows (in case it was more updated) and went to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers but they were all .sys files. not sure where to go from here. once again sorry for the double post and thanks for your help!