Michel Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Heya, I have a friend who is buying a new computer and would like to put linux on it. But he would like the wireless card to be automatically detected and configured .... (everything if possible :)). Anyone knows if configuring wireless cards using mandrake is easy?? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Theres some people that say that installing it in Mandrake is hard, some say it's easy. I yet still have to install my Wireless card, and according to the instructions that they give it's very very easy. You can check this post out http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=5494 This will guide you on how to install a Wireless Card. Hope this helps, -Luis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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liquidzoo Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Heya, I have a friend who is buying a new computer and would like to put linux on it. But he would like the wireless card to be automatically detected and configured .... (everything if possible :)). Anyone knows if configuring wireless cards using mandrake is easy?? Thanks. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Some wireless cards are a piece of cake to install. If your friend has a choice, tell him to get an orinoco based card. Those are the easiest (and the one I wrote that FAQ for). Most others will work, but they can be a pain to install. If you know what type of card your friend is getting, we can get everything working smoothly fairly quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilbert Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 I bought a CNet CNWLC 811 PCMCIA card and plug into the Mandrake 10. After pcmcia_cs was installed, the card was detected in boot but failed to assign IP address. After the installation of package atmel-firmware (commercial package) and reboot, iwlist eth1 scan worked, ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.3 worked, everything worked well like magic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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