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Actually I got it directly from Mandrivaclub (I'm a silver member) The other cd's seemed to burn ok but they did first appear as a compressed file. Neither Nero or kB3 would treat thse raw downloads as an iso. I physically had to decompress each downloaded cd (with winrar), store it on my HD and use Nero to create image files from the extracted files. THEN I could actually burn a bootable install cd. ...It was odd as I have done it your way before successfully(with 10.1pp) but it just wouldn't fly this time.

Grabbed this distro with bittorrent and found out 1. ISO is compressed, so I had to decompress file(s) and reburn images back to hardrive to create a bootable cd ...this needs simplified. Download iso...burn directly to disk, make it that easy. 2. Disk 4 shows up in nero as some 898Mb. A little too large for my 700Mb disk, did someone make a boo-boo? This is the file structure of the disk 4 I got...what is wrong with it, seems many files replicated within folders .. DKMS media-----------> [ dkms [main4 [ plugins [firmwares [ modules Firmware Modules Plugins anyone willing to verify this? or suggest what fat to trim to create the iso?

Fire up Mandrake Control Center, chose the network & internet section, chose new connection, answer the questions that follow... when finished try kppp again...hope this helps..

Create your page(s) with whatever web editor you want . Apache pulls the pages from /var/www/html. Just replace the pages in there with yours. Make sure you rename your home (base) page to index.htm ....and thats about it...sry no help with the other items...

It's finally working again..I'm not sure there isn't an issue with which kernel thats being loaded. On my last attempt I installed LM 9.2 (2.4 kernel, no other choice available in distro), configured hostap then upgraded to LM 10.1 pp.. maybe a bug in the 2.6.8-12mdk kernel.

the modules for the pci and plx are present but not for hostap_cs which is what I needed for pcmcia. anyway..I've tried to repeat this process on another similar machine to no avail...if anyone has any advice on installation and configuration please feel free to add your comments as info (google) is sadly lacking to this particular distro and pcmcia card.

I posted another thread stating I had this working , and indeed I did but I tried to repeat the process on another machine and I just can't get it going...I've followed the hostap guidelines. Basically I start from a clean LM10.1 pp default install....install the kernel source, symlink to the source, download latest hostap driver, untar , make, make install,and edit my etc/pcmcia/hostap_config to include the output from cardctl info...everything seems to go smoothly to this point, then I'll reboot to force all the new configs to be read but wlan0 never appears as a choice in wireless network configurations in the mandrake control center. This is VERY important for me as I just started a small WISP and was using a YDI (terrabeam) access point but it just got fried by lighting a couple days ago and at over $600 a unit I'm not inclined to buy another. If anybody out there can help me out with this I would be greatly appreciative. Just point me to something that works. I feel like I 'm just running in circles.

I ijust installed LM10.1 powerpack and was going to install the hostap program but I need the kernel source for my system. Output of uname -r says its 2.6.8.1-12mdk, but when I try to install I'm told it doesn't exist....what gives?

I'm probably gonna get a dozen different replies to this but I need to build a mail server for a wireless network and have limited/no experience in this area. What is the easiest/fastest way to get tis done? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I DON"T BELIEVE IT .....I GOT IT WORKING...WOOT WOOT After 3 days and about 10 installs of 5 different distros with Hostap. Download these three files from Hostap...and put them on a floppy hostap-driver-0.3.7.tar.gz hostap-utils-0.3.7.tar.gz hostapd-0.3.7.tar.gz boot up a fresh install....bring up a terminal... su to root Mandrake 10.1, kernel 2.6.8.1-mdk (uname -r) After install I added kernel-sources-2.6.8.1-mdk (urpmi kernel-sources-2.6.8.1-mdk) through Mandrake Control Center then typed this in console as root: ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-mdk /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-mdk/build Now..with Konqueror, I extracted the floppy contents into my home directory so now I've got three new folders in my home directory. hostap-driver-0.3.7 hostap-utils-0.3.7 hostapd-0.3.7 cd into /home/myhome/hostap-driver-0.3.7 in console type make watch while it compiles...owwwwww next type make install watch again..owwwww cd into /home/myhome/hostap-utils-0.3.7 in console type make watch while it compiles...owwwwww next type make install watch again..owwwww cd into /home/myhome/hostapd-0.3.7 in console type make watch while it compiles...owwwwww next type make install watch again..owwwww open a new console and su to root type kwrite when kwrite opens navigate to /etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf add this to hostap_cs.conf: card "SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter" manfid 0xd601 0x0010 bind "hostap_cs" save the file back to hostap_cs.conf reboot When it comes back up go into Mandrake Control Center and in the networking section create a new connection and when it asks you which interface to configure chose wlan0. I'm online!!

So my systems running kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk and when I try to install kernel-source it keeps trying to install 2.4....whatever...what is the point of this..I want the sources of my installed kernel! [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Well, lspci doesn't even see it, read that the wlan-ng driver worked but makeall errors out....I never have much luck installing tarballs and such....recommendations? Ok... 2 days later....so now I'm trying to install ndiswrapper, still, with the card in the laptop lspci sees nothing..dmesg says nothing obvious.. One item from boot-up.. starting pcmcia: [OK] cardmgr(2323) product info "SMC", "SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter", "","" so something knows it there, I've read all the info I can find and it seems no two ppl do exactly the same thing to get this working...basically.. for LM 10.1: 1. Remove acx100...Mandrake 10.1 has built in the ACX100 Sourceforge Project Driver as a kernel module, you will need to remove this before install the ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Mandrake%2010.1) 2: Remove all traces of prior ndiswrapper installs. 3: Go to sourceforge and get latest ndiswrapper tarball. 4. Untar in home directory 5. Run make (as root) from the ndiswrapper directory(created in /home ) 6. Run make install (from same place) OK so far... 7.Copy drivers from the cards installation cd to my home directory(.inf,.sys,bin) 8.Do " ndiswrapper -i <location of the drivers you just copied over> 9.Do " ndiswrapper -m " (to register the module) Now all this seemed to go pretty good but I did "ndiswrapper -l" I get: smc2532w invalid driver Not to mention that I've still got no bus identification for this device. so..its not working yet. Can anyone help me please...

Ok. so its a winmodem...but LM10.1 installed the slamr module and the modem DOES seem to work (no sound) because when I do a modem query in the kppp interface it finds it as ttySL0 and returns the modem commands. But if I dial my ISP kppp stops progression with a "NO CARRIER" message in the kppp log window. Where are the configuration files that generate this? Seems I read that it can be subverted somehow. Any help at all...please, as I'm desperate to get this thing working.

Ok,...well I found another menu under manual configuration (printerdrake) and it eventually came right out and asked me if i had a HP combo printer so I just followed the yellow brick road and "TADA"...it all works fine now . Thanks for your reply...