Guest sbbaker Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 I am a newbie to linux and just installed mandrake community version 10.1 over xp. I need to know the steps to access my netgear wireless router since I cannot mount the windows compatible driver. Thanks alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Everyone, This is for a buddy of mine who I have convinced to try linux. He is super excited, but is having trouble migrating due to the difficulties in setting up WiFi access for his dell laptop computer. Although I know my way around linux, I have never setup WiFi access for a laptop before. What he is looking for is a software application to configure the WiFi and/or the necessary drivers that need to be loaded to make it all work. A step by step guide would be very helpful, and remember that he is completely new to linux...he is just now learning the concept of mounting, etc. Any input would be greatly appreciated.... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Firstly, what is the wireless card? is it a centrino based wireless? sbbaker: Open up Konsole, its in the menu, then write 'lspci', hit enter and copy what it says to a post on this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sbbaker Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Thanks for the backup santner... iphitus: I have a Netgear MR814 router, Netgear 802.11b wireless card, and pentium. I can't copy/paste "lspci" since I'm using a different computer for the net. lspci reads as the following: 1. usb controller: intel corp...hub #1 2. usb controller: intel corp...hub#2 3. pci bridge: intel corp 82801 pci bridge 4. isa bridge: intel corp. 82801CAM ISA bridge (LPC) 5. ide interface:... 6. multimedia audio controller... 7. modem: intel corp...modem controller 8. vga compatible controller 9. ethernet controller: 3com corporation 3c905c-tx/tx-M (Tornado) 10. Cardbus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card cardbus controller 11. Cardbus bridge:... 12. FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller anything else? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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