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The dkms service shows to be running. when I type urpmi dkms, it says everything is installed already. what I am trying to do is install this file: ipw2200-dkms-0.15-1mdk.noarch but when I type "urpmi ipw2200-dkms-0.15-1mdk.noarch", it gives an error saying a package required can't be installed and if I wish to continue. When I type "Y", it goes back to the prompt. Other thing I noticed is that the commands iwlist scan, iwconfig and ifconfig work sometimes and not otherwise even after loading the firmware. For example, with iwlist scan I got the list of all the wireless networks near me but when I typed it again after a few minutes, it didn't give any list and showed and error against my wireless card saying it was an input/output error. I hope I have provided enough details to analyse the problem. I am still seeking help on the booting problem. Thanks.

doesn't work:(. the booting is also taking too much time when it's starting network services after firewire. i installed both dkms-2.0.0-5mdk.src from the internet and the dkms(with noarch) from the CD. what mistake m i making or what more do i need to do? i m new to troubleshooting linux and otherwise too. pls help.

Hi folks. I hope the problem I have is simple for most of you to solve. I have an intel pro wireless 2200 b/g card and I somewhoe made it work by installing the ipw2200-dkms-0.15-1mdk.noarch.rpm and the firmware in Mandriva 200d LE. But I have installed Mandrake 10.1 Official and trying to install the same rpm. It said it did not have dependencies and gave an error saying"it requires dkms" or something. I installed the kernel source (which, if I am right, is in the 3rd CD), but still it gives the same error. Please help me solve this. The other problem I have is that the booting gets stuck when it has already loaded the firewire thing and OKed it. It gets stuck for about 2 mins or more which is very annoying. Please help if you know what the problem is. Thanks.

how does one make real player the default player in mandriva 2005 LE and also, how do I play the windows media format videos on the net in mandriva?

Hi. I got connected yesterday just after posting here, but unfortunately I am in the same old desparate condition again. I don't know what new things I did because I am sure I did nothing new, but I got connected to a network which doesn't have a wpa encryption and when I tried to create a new profile, that new profile didn't work and I got no connection. But, with that new profile created, when I switched back to the old one (default), I couldn't connect. I don't know why but the "wireless" configuration in my control center flashes for a second and then returns to the main screen without opening. This was not the case when I could connect for the first time. Please let me know what could be the error and plus, I inted o connect on a network which will be having a wpa encryption, so please tell me if I should switch to any other version like mandrake 10.1 official or something. Is it a more stable version than Mandriva 2005? Why is this edition called a "limited" version? Thanks for responding promptly and I seek further help:)...

Hi everyone. I am posting the same problem again as I gave up before two months after trying to make my intel centrino toshiba laptop's wireless 2200 b/g card on mandriva 2005 LE. I would greatly appreciate if someone can walk me through the configuration. I have a toshiba satellite m35-s320 centrino laptop which says that it has integrated intel pro/wireless 2100 802.11g network connection on a label on the laptop but when I try to install the drivers for the first time, it always takes the drivers of 2200 b/g. I have tried from installation guides and used the firmware and ndiswrapper and everything i know of but tragically it never worked. But I am still ready to do it all over again if someone is ready to offer help regarding this. desparately seeking the solution...

update: i have got wpa_supplicant working, but when i type wpa_cli, it says it is unable to connect to wpa_supplicant. one more thing, even if i change the essid through iwconfig wlan0 essid, it doesn't change it. the essid always remains "off/any". this happens with ndiwrapper as well as ipw2200.

thanks a lot guys...:)

hi, thanks for ur suggestions. i have now installed 2005 le version now.

hi. i have installed 2005 LE and have problems with wireless. I am not as advanced as the initiator of this thread. i installed ndiswrapper and when it asked for windows drivers i provided only .inf file. in addition i installed the firmware and ipw2200 drivers too but it doesnt seem to work for me. i have wpa-psk and tkip too. have downloaded wpa_supplicant but dunno how to go further. eager for ur replies and help. thanks.

i installed the mandriva 2005 limited edition and while configuring the wireless it did ask me wif i wanted wpa enabled and i clisked on yes. I configured my wireless through ndiswrapper which is an inbuilt facility in this version. But i don't know what to do after that with ndiswrapper. i also installed the ipw2200 drivers and the firmware and hotplugging and all after which it should have atleast shown me the available wireless networks, but in this version, it doesn't. it did show me the wireless networks in mandrake 10.1 community version and it also got connected to the one which did not have encryption. but now, in this version it is a different story. someone suggested to install wpa_supplicant package which i don't know how to. i downloaded the package but i don't know what should be the content of .config file. i tried making a .config file after reading the readme file but it doesn't work. i would rather prefer to connect wireless through the installation of ipw2200, which i have already done but it doesn't show or detect any network. when i do dhclient, it just keeps on saying dhcpdiscover but finally ends up not having any dhcp offers. please help and guide me in the right direction. lots of thanks.

i guess i can connect to Access Points which do not have any kind of encryption key involved. as i noticed it shows that i was connected to a free network but i couldn't open any page in mozilla. the signal strength was 40/100. but i want to get connected to my n/w which has wpa encryption and tkip protocol. as soon as i switch to this n/w i get disconnected and then never connect to any n/w. are there different settings for wpa encryption? please let me know...

Hi everyone. I am getting an error as follows: <0> kernel panic : fatal exception in interrupt In interrupt handler -not syncing I don't know how I got this error because I have been trying to configure my intel wireless 22 b/g card on my laptop (toshiba centrino) and that's it. I have logged in windows and linux many times and have been doing it almost daily. I just do not know how I got this error. because of this, linux doesn't boot now and gets stuck on the above message. This is an additional problem as I was already facing a hell lot of them regarding wireless. Any help for solving this issue is greatly appreciated. Thanks and have a nice day!

I am sorry but I am new and I don't know if there is a problem in the encryption, what it is and how can it be overcome. I greatly appreciate that you replied. If possible, please help me get this working. Thanks.

Experts :D , please help me upgrading my mandrake 10.1 community to mandrake latest and also please tell me what kde 3.4 is. I have kde 3.2. I want to intsall these upgrades because I am hoping that will somehow help my wireless problem which I keep posting in the laptop section but haven't got it solved yet. Please guide me how to get the rpms for the latest version and how to upgrade the kernel as well as KDE? Please overlook my ignorance. Thanks.