Guest SSpiro Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 New to this distro.. Installed last night on my WinXP Compaq Presario R3000 laptop. Set it up to dual boot using LILO. When I installed this distro, it found my Broadcom Wireless device (integrated, and its also dead - doesn't work) and my added Cisco Aironet 350 card. I didn't have my WEP key printed out, so I didn't set it up. Once I got into the OS to set it up, it won't allow me to configure the Cisco card and gives the error in a window titled 'Drakconnect" - "Unable to find interface for selected device (Using airo_cs driver)" I've read on here by searching that this card is definitely compatible with Mandriva.. So what should I do to get it up and running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 I believe the internal wireless is supported via ndiswrapper. As root in the terminal run the command lspci & if you see the following 0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03) you can use your windows driver (bcmwl5a.inf) along with ndiswrapper. I suggest that you search for 'bcmwl5a' which should help I also came across this link http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawi...hp/Installation which will enlighten you further. Any problems after that then please post... As for your Cisco card - not sure myself HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SSpiro Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 I'll look into that, but I believe the onboard broadcom is dead as in, won't function - mandriva or windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 ah I see! :( Just checking but you do have pcmciautils installed for your Aironet 350 card? If not as root 'urpmi pcmciautils' should suffice as long as you have the repo's setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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