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Ask the salesman for a card using an Atheros chip. The drivers are very easy to set up. An 'older' model would be a D-Link DWL-G650, for example. Britt Dickson

ifconfig wlan(0) up ifconfig wlan(0) down Britt Dickson

It should be a lot easier than that, although remember that ndiswrapper was kind of flaky until Mandriva 10.1, unless you added it yourself, which I found difficult. Anyway, using text mode, I cd to the directory on my drive where the XP drivers have been exploded (It's a dual-boot setup), then "ndiswrapper -i YourFile.inf" loads the XP drivers (the .inf and the .sys), and then "modprobe ndiswrapper" starts up wlan(0) and you set it with your declarations or using iwconfig. It remembers settings between boots, and the OS will even pick up a different card if you swap them between boots, and set it all up for you. Britt Dickson Member 3.14159

Hi, You shouldn't really need all the above past "modprobe ndiswrapper". That's supposed to fire off wlan(0) which will then show up with "iwconfig all". Try using drakconf, or the Configuration Center in X11 mode and add ndiswrapper there (under network connections): sometimes making the tool do it will help solve stubborn problems, even if you have etc/modprobe.conf memorized. Britt Dickson

Stephen, I haven't seen the guide, but "modprobe ndiswrapper" usually gets wlan(0) going and then iwconfig will work to set it up. You can also try "Service network restart" after "modprobe ndiswrapper", assumimg ndiswrapper is set up, of course. That will also get it going. Britt Dickson Member 3.14159

As a worst case scenario, you can run xf86config, choose the VESA driver when you get to choosing the graphics card, and get X to run that way. BD

Use 'urpmi kernel-source-2.6 and have CD3 handy. BD

At this point, 'urpmi kernel-source-2.6' would have gotten the correct .rpm from CD3. BD

If you 'urpmi kernel-source-2.6' you'll get what you want. BD

Murda: Here's the steps i followed to get access to this Win2000 laptop from my Mdk 10.1 box via ethernet: Win2000: Share drive(s) Set Permissions | Include Network as a user Control Panel | Network | Name your Workgroup reboot WinXP: Share drive(s) Set Permissions | Include Network as a user Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder options | View Tab | Simple File Sharing Control Panel | Network | Name your Workgroup reboot 10.1 and KDE: System |Configuration | Configure Your Computer => Mandrakiva Control Center Mount Points Local Disk Sharing - enable mode you want Samba Mount Points | Search Servers | Select System(s) | Name Windows drives: 'Win2K_C - WinXP-D - Windoze-E' etc. | Mount Drives | Name Samba domain same as Windows WorkGroup (You may have to search around to find all these options, as i don't have KDE up, but I remember them presenting pretty clearly) Done Now the drives are mounted, and you can read them. It's gotta work, or your money back. BD

I think i've tryed everything, is there anybody who actually succedded to network Linux & XP ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Xp's File sharing is inherited from Win2000 and a huge PITA unless: Open Windows Explorer Tools | Folder Options View Tab Scroll to the bottom, click Simple File Sharing (recommended)' reboot and try your samba mount points again. BD

Try F1, then 'linux expert text noapic'. Works most of the time, and gives you options you don't get without expert. BD

You can still download the community version. ??? BD

The community version does not include some things that the official release does. Madwifi is one example. BD

of course, using k3b, CD>burn CD image <{POST_SNAPBACK}> When I was playing with Gentoo, they suggested a floppy boot manager called smart boot manager. It has solved my problems with CD's not booting. http://btmgr.webframe.org/ BD

I'd suggest dropping back to the command prompt (if you're not there already(?)). Then tar -options file.tar.gz, cd to the directory created, and do a make and then a make install. BD

I've done all my installs in text mode, and expert is a mandatory option to get where I need to go. Not so with a graphical install? BD

Hi, I've been reading along. If I understand what you're saying, for everytime I tar ndiswrapper or whatever, then do a make, followed by a make install, I'm recompiling my kernel also? I don't get this compiling stuff at all. BD

I think you have to select Expert mode to get the choice of boot partition, etc. BD

All the COBOL that's still out there was the main reason for the Y2K scare. Computer Associates, Accucobol and (formerly) MicroFocus all sell PC compilers to write new code or debug/modify old code under Windoze so as to not waste cycles on the mainframes until the code is ready for final test. They are also used to move apps off the mainframe when companies downsize their hardware. COBOL was the first language that was supposed to run on any computer. BD

Is there a particular reason you're trying to build ndiswrapper? You can find ndiswrapper-0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm (or another architecture) via google (I used rpmfind.net) and urpmi it, but as the post above says, you have to get rid of the 0.4 version that comes with 10.1. Here's a couple of links which may help: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki...x.php/Uninstall http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki...hp/Installation (This one covers make (if you still want to) and installation pretty thoroughly). Remember to follow as many links as you can until you're confortable with it. Good Luck BD

Here's a recent post that should help, if you still need it (no [solved] showing): http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=24628 BD

:D Thank you for the clarification. BTW, i didn't have the proper permissions to access carroll.cac.psu.edu/, so I googled "patch-2.5.9-2mdk.i586.rpm" and found it on RPMFind.net. And I was able to figure out what 2. (Below) was trying to do and did it myself. Why don't the scripts reflect what's there after a standard install? Also, Is there a link you can suggest that mentions category-names and package-names for programs I am likely to need but were not installed? I'm surprised that patch wasn't installed based on the program criteria I entered for install (basically everything except for some server options.) For madwifi, I dowloaded "madwifi-cvs-current.tar.bz2" and did "make clean "and "make". Is there any reason why it would need to be patched? (I have "madwifi-2.6.8-mm_and_later-040927.patch", but I don't know if I need it.) Thanks again, BD :P

I've installed 2.6.8.1-12 as well as the source, and I'm now playing with madwifi. After I extracted the latest tarball, I needed to run install.sh from /madwifi/patches/2.6, but it fails thrice: 1. because the script uses 2.6 for the version, instead of 2.6.8.1-12mdk-i586-up-1GB . Changing that solved the "missing /lib/modules/2.6/build/drivers/net/wireless directory' failure 2. now I get "cp: cannot stat `../../hal/linux/*.inc' No such file or directory" + " /*.opt_ah.h " + " /*.hal.o.uu " 3. PATCH() { patch -N $1 < $2 } errors out: "install.sh: line 24: patch command not found." I think I can puzzle out 2. (so as to not have to type out install.sh ), but 3 appears to be telling me I don't have the "patch" command. Is this correct? Where do I get it? Tx, BD

Hi Steve: I hope you're still following this post. I have 10.1 Download, and having heard that it doesn't include madwifi, I can't do what you've said, but i have some advance questions: 1. When you add Source, does it create a madwifi directory, or is madwifi there only in the Official 10.1? 2. Is it actually in /?. 3. if it's NOT there at all, how do I get the mdk-blessed version, and 4. is it still 0.9? Thanks, BD2K