I just recently istalled Mandrake 10.0 and am reletively new to linux. I have compaq 2195us laptop and a orinoco pcmcia wireless card. mandrake recognizes my card and tells me i'm getting good signal strength. But it won't connect to my wireless access point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Edit: moved from Hardware by spinynorman

do you have a WEP key setup?

or any security features enabled on your access point?

not at my house, but i also attend ASU and there is some security features there. But, it dose not work at either place.

try adding the kwifi from add/remove progs....
(it might be plf or contribs) which meansyou need to know how to set up URMPI sources....
(see FAQ or [post back if this is the case)

My compaq 2178cl has much the same problem(with both a dell truemobile 1150(rebadged orinoco) and a lucent orinoco gold card)

[root@localhost james]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"ecrnrh" Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:80:C8:03:B1:94
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:30/92 Signal level:-58 dBm Noise level:-88 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

[root@localhost james]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:9D:43:F5:BF
inet addr:192.168.0.114 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20d:9dff:fe43:f5bf/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1158243 (1.1 Mb) TX bytes:151612 (148.0 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:28:9B:6E
inet6 addr: fe80::202:2dff:fe28:9b6e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x100

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4114 (4.0 Kb) TX bytes:4114 (4.0 Kb)
i tried using kwifi without any success (it does show a signal though)