Wireless card detection/driver

[joltz]

Hi guys,

 

Im using linux mandrake comunity 10.1.

Im having problems detecting my wireless card.

Im using a DLINK Airplus G= DWL -G250+ Wireless PCI adapter card,

Im also using a USB, Netgear Wg111v2 54Mbps Wireless adapater

(i have 2 routers and 2 internet connections)

 

(I dont mind which network i connect to as long as i can connect to 1)

 

Mandrake picks up 1 of the adapters, im guessing the PCI one cause the usb one doesnt seem to activate in linux atm, but it picks it up as ETHO something or rather.

 

Ive tried various settings to try and get it to work with no luck, is there a driver I can install or anything to make this a easier process?

 

Thanks

[joltz]

Ok ive been goin thru all my options and i just found that in the mandrake control panel > hardware section, it detects my dlink network card as uknown/other and it gives me no options to configure the device.

 

Anyway to fix this prob?

[Ixthusdan]

Yes. Use ndiswrapper. Basically, you can initiate it from harddrake. When you go to install a driver, it should give an option to use ndiswrapper. Do that, and it will ask for the location of the driver to use. Just point it to the windows driver. I actually left the driver in my windows partition. It works fine.

[ianw1974]

Some help info for ndiswrapper:

 

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawi...x.php/Main_Page

 

and the particular entries you're most likely to need are Installation and WPA if you're thinking of securing with WPA. And of course, Download :P