nitemarepc

II'm sorry, but without access to the same wireless card, I can't offer you any more help. :sad:

What wireless card should I get that would work with Mandriva? (pcmcia)

Thanks for your help,

nitemarepc

I thought you had a Prism2, but I guess I was wrong. I'm sorry, but I still need to know what chipset you have. Please post or attach as dmesg.txt (if it's very large) the complete output of dmesg.

Here it is as an attachment. Saved it with kwrite:

nitemarepc

judylap.txt

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.

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