dnoyc Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 (edited) just installed mandrake 10.1 and everything works fine except for my wireless card (and my modem but who cares about that) anyway i don't understand why its not working. both my ethernet card and wireless card show up under the control center. my wireless card shows up as: PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter, but i can't figure out how to actually use the wireless card. any help is appreciated. edit: this is especially frustrating since mandrake advertises wireless working out of the box in 10.1 with this being one of the supported cards. besides its just the standard centrino card making it a common enough card that it should work much like my ethernet card. Edited January 16, 2005 by dnoyc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Firewall? (if evereything is configured and showing up) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnoyc Posted January 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 the card shows up in the mandrake control center, but i don't see it as a network connection, and i don't see any wireless utilities that i can use to start it. there is no firewall before the access point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leupi Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 I am having the same issue with my PRO/Wireless card and I ended up here at http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/. I haven't had the time to roll up my sleeves and really get into it though. I am pretty new to Linux and it all seems pretty complicated at the moment... Gotta take the plunge soon though, hate not having wireless :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 I don't know how 10.1 is supposed to configure this card - 9.2 works fine for me :). In 9.2, I got wireless working using Linuxant driverloader and windows driver. You may want to try this. The installation is pretty straigtforward, and does not require special skills. And their support is good, by the way. Ndiswrapper did not work for me out box, so I didn't worry about this too much since I bought a driverloader license by that time. In any case, my suggestion would be to forget using MDK control center, and configure all stuff by hand. After all, the MDK control center is simply a GUI to a bunch of buggy scripts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnoyc Posted January 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 i made a little progress on this. it turns out 10.1 had the driver built in, but it was an older one. all i needed to do was load the 1.2 firmware from ipw2100.sourceforge.net. however this older drivers did not support WEP, so i had to upgrade it to the newer one, which i did with the dkms package, but now i can't get the module to load. there is another thread where i am getting help with this part, hopefully someone will make some sense of what's going on with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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