Thin Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 (edited) hi all Have installed 10.1 community on my Centrino Laptop. Am largely very happy with the outcome although i have yet to start using it in anger due to the lack of network access. My laptop has a Intel Wireless Pro 2200BG mini card inside it, whilst Mandrake 10.1 appears to recognise this, i don't seem to be able to see an obvious way to connect it to my wireless network, which is a 54g affair secured with WPA-PSK. If i have noobishly missed the fields to enter my key and ssid then i apologise in advance. I remember reading a while back that neither NDIS wrapper nor the Intel drivers at http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ supported WPA-PSK but that it would be added in due course. Where i am slightly confused is what i already have on my system (ie bundled with 10.1 community) as opposed to what i actually need to achieve what i want. The control centre dialogues don't really give much away in this regard. I attach what the control centres hardware section is currently reporting Any help / suggestions highly appreciated as i am a tad lost. Identification Vendor: Intel Corp. Description: Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Media class: NETWORK_OTHER Connection Bus: PCI Bus PCI #: 2 PCI device #: 9 PCI function #: 0 Vendor ID: 32902 Device ID: 16928 Sub vendor ID: 32902 Sub device ID: 9986 Misc Module: ipw2200 feel free to move this over to networking - may be more appropriate Edited September 30, 2004 by Thin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_eivind Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 I'm not exactly a Linux guru, but to get my Intel 2200b/g-card working I had to manually install (it's quite easy, though) the firmware for my card (from ipw2200.sourceforge.net), and the command ifplugd to connect to the WLANs I use. However, I think Mandrake has published RPMs of the firmware for MandrakeClub members to make it even simpler. Regarding the key, can't you use iwconfig to set most settings..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 feel free to move this over to networking - may be more appropriate <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I reckon that, since the card is built in to the laptop, there is no need to move it. Just PM a mod if you disagree and would like it moved... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 I'm not exactly a Linux guru, but to get my Intel 2200b/g-card working I had to manually install (it's quite easy, though) the firmware for my card (from ipw2200.sourceforge.net), and the command ifplugd to connect to the WLANs I use. However, I think Mandrake has published RPMs of the firmware for MandrakeClub members to make it even simpler. Regarding the key, can't you use iwconfig to set most settings..? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ok downloaded and placed the firmware into the appropriate folder and re ran the wizard. I now have the new interface showing in the control centre. Have tried putting the ssid and key into the wizard but i'm not ending up with a working connection. I get the impression its missing some connection info somewhere - i cant see an option to choose between WEP and WPA in the wizard Given that i'm try to connect to a WPA-PSK network should I be using wpa supplicant ? Is this already in 10.1 ? Sorry if these are dumb questions guys, but i'm a little confused on whether the wizard is supposed to do what i want it to do (WPA-PSK) or whether its just for 'standard' WEP... Thanks again for any help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Looking around on the site I see no mention of WPA support. The 2100 site *does* mention WPA support quite prominently, so I'm thinking maybe the driver doesn't actually support WPA yet :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Looking around on the site I see no mention of WPA support. The 2100 site *does* mention WPA support quite prominently, so I'm thinking maybe the driver doesn't actually support WPA yet :( <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You could well be right. I find it slightly maddening that it doesn't say on the site anywhere what the current feature list actually is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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