[TriLUG] Mandrake 9 and wlan-ng

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:36, H Brett Bolen wrote:
> last time I tried to install the wlan drivers, it told me I needed to
> use the new pcmcia drivers also -- is this still the case?

Nope.  Mandrake 9.0 includes all you need to use the new drivers,
except for that one rpm I mentioned, and all that's in it is 
configuration files an utility programs.

If you want, you can download a version compiled for Mandrake 9.0 at:

http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/rpms/mandrake/9.0/i586/prism2-utils-0.1.14-1mdk.i586.rpm

Or alternatively, you can download the source rpm from here:

http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/rpms/mandrake/9.0/SRPMS/prism2-utils-0.1.14-1mdk.src.rpm

and rebuild it with "rpm --rebuild <rpmfilename>".

After installing this rpm, make sure you setup the file
/etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 (I use dhcp,
so I just copied my ifcfg-eth0 over, but if you do that, remember
to change the line in it that says "eth0" to be "wlan0" or 
else dhcp won't work!) and then you should be able to
restart pcmcia and then restart networking.

(As root, do)
service pcmcia restart
service networking restart

Then check that wlan0 is up and running.

Tanner
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