Pal.....as far as drivers for any wireless cards are concerned this is a thumb rule you should follow:

--> Plug card in and see if it works with standard *_cs drivers. --> If card detected then egt interface up and see if n/w connectivity exists. --> Most of the old WAVELAN drivers have been depreciated in the new kernel and hence the new distros and you not using the nnew ones which are BY DEFAULT configured for the interface could be causing those sparks. --> If that ain't working too.....download new kernel and compile with driver into kernel. But, make sure you know the chipseet your PC_WIRELESS_CARD posesses. Don't go by names of the card...SEE THE FRIGGIN CHIPSET. --> Test from the CLI and only when you know the parameters are right...tweak /etc/pcmcia/* config files.

As of now, can you try your card in a stock install of RH/Debain/Mandrake and let us know of the results.

Have a nice day all.

Trevor

Quoting "Nikhil D. Kikkeri" nikhil23@hotmail.com:

Hi all--

I run Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop.I have a linksys WPC 11 wireless (802.11b) card which i would like to make use of while working on Linux.

I got the driver from Linksys and configured it such that I use pcmcia_cs instead of kernel PCMCIA code.the driver was compiled and successfully installed.

i opened the wlan-ng.opts file to insert the SSID of the network which in my

case is (SMU1911).The campus network uses DHCP.

However modifing the file and restarting pcmcia did not help.

I know for sure the device is installed because cardctl ident shows the device name correctly.Also when I try to connect from the Mandrake Control center I can see that although bytes are being received, no bytes are being

sent.

Is there anything that i failed to tweak.what else do i need to have a look at and modify?

TIA

rgds -NDK

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