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What wireless card should I get that would work with Mandriva? (pcmcia) Thanks for your help, nitemarepc

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Did the lsmod | grep orinoco_cs and got this output: orinoco_cs 14180 1 orinoco 38484 1 orinoco_cs hermes 6912 2 orinoco_cs, orinoco pcmcia 32972 1 orinoco_cs pcmcia_core 32884 4 orinoco_cs, pcmcia, yenta_socket, rsrc_nonstatic nitemarepc

[root@localhost ~]# lspcmcia -v Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:02:01.0) Configuration: state: on ready: yes Socket 1 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:02:01.1) Configuration: state: on ready: yes Voltage: 5.0V Vcc: 5.0V Vpp: 0.0V Socket 1 Device 0: [orinoco_cs] (bus ID: 1.0) Configuration: state: on Product Name: Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card Version 01.01 Identification: manf_id: 0x0156 card_id: 0x0002 function: 6 (network) prod_id(1): "Dell" (0xd726cf79) prod_id(2): "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card" (0xce1172fb) prod_id(3): "Version 01.01" (0xd27deb1a) prod_id(4): --- (---) [root@localhost ~]# [nitemarepc@localhost ~]$ dmesg |grep -i prism [nitemarepc@localhost ~]$ [root@localhost ~]# dmesg |grep -i prism [root@localhost ~]# I did not get anything back for the: dmesg |grep -i prism command logged in as root or user. nitemarepc

The pcmciautils was already installed and I wasn't logged in as the root user. Here is the output for the command pccardctl ident: [root@localhost ~]# pccardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "Dell", "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card", "Version 01.01", "" manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 function: 6 (network)

I have not tried the wired internet connection but it does have an ethernet connection on it (builtin). With the installation, I chose the option to copy the cd's onto the hard drive. Where is the gui package manager and what do I do to install the pcmciautils package? I'm sorry but I don't know these commands or anything about linux. I am a programmer (15 years) with AS400 RPG & COBOL, Visual Basic & C++ for Windows but not knowledgable with linux (always curious about it but don't know anything about the environment, commands, operation, etc.). Where would be a good place to get educated about linux. Thanks, nitemarepc

Okay, I'm a dummy with linux. I type 'pccardctl ident' in konsole but got an error and no output. Mandriva does recognize the TrueMobile 1150 card it just won't save the changes I input for the card - encryption - WPA/WPA2 and always goes back to 'WEP'. After login as root, what exactly do I put in the konsole command line? The wireless card is pcmcia card that is plugged in. Thanks, nitemarepc

I have a used Dell C610 256MG memory 1GHz processor. I have installed the Mandriva 2008 Spring Free with the 3 CD's. The configuration for the wireless card (Dell Truemobile 1150) is set to encryption of WEB and I want the WPA shared, it is also set at network of "Managed". I have tried everything to change the encryption to WPA and each time the settings go back to encryption of WEB and the original settings. I am set as root user with admin password but it won't save my changes to the wireless configuration. HELP!!! I'm a newbie to Mandriva and Linux so please be gentle. P.S. There is no other operating system on the hard drive. [moved from Installing Mandriva by Greg2]