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So I have been trying to get my wireless card to work under
Mandrake 9.2. I found a guy on the net that got the same card that I have to
work under mdk 9.2. I emailed him and he gave me a
set of instructions to follow. Unfortunately, I am not sure I understand the
very first instruction. I have been using mandrake for over a year now, but I
never really got into the deep stuff of linux, so
some things are still above me. Can someone tell what I need to do for his
first instruction? Here are the instructions he sent me: Steps
took to make the Linksys WPC55AG NIC work under
Linux. Downloaded
and installed the kernel source for my Linux distribution, in this case
Mandrake 9.2. – [How do I install the
kernel source? I installed mandrake off
of the three CD’s that I downloaded…] Downloaded,
untared, read the README file, and compiled the latest
MADWIFI software
according to the documentation, in this case madwifi-20030802.tgz. I
found it in; http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/madwifi/madwifi-20030802.tgz?download. As
root, went to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
directory, and copied the ifcfg-eth0 to
ifcfg-ath0. As
root I edited the ifcfg-ath0 file with my favorite editor, and made changes for
the file to look like this; DEVICE=ath0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:0c:41:05:a3:0a MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no NEEDHOSTNAME=yes Basically
I changed the device name and the hardware address, and saved the file. I
restarted the PCMCIA card services by running #
service pcmcia restart then I
ran #
service network restart Just
like magic, I was connected to my wireless router, and was surfing the web. Thanks ahead of time for your help… Ken Keefe |