First time using Linux


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Ok.....I just installed Mandrake 10 but I can't get onto the internet. I have the Cisco Aironet 350 series wireless card. Linux seems to detect the card becasue the name shows up but I'm not getting any throughput. I tried booting back into XP and copied the IP adress and Gateway and all that stuff, went back into Linux and put them in and nothing. Any suggestions ?

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first of all check to see if your card shows up on iwconfig

if its there and you are not getting internet then you have to configure your essid and encryption key etc.

create a file call ifcfg-(your_card_module_name) with the following

STARTMODE=hotplug

DEVICE=(your_card_module_name)

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ONBOOT=yes

WIRELESS=yes

WIRELESS_MODE=Managed

WIRELESS_ESSID=

WIRELESS_RATE=

WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=

WIRELESS_RTS=''

WIRELESS_FRAG=''

WIRELESS_IWCONFIG=ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

WIRELESS_IWSPY=''

configure it the way you like and save it to /etc/sysconfig/network

im currently using suse9.1 with the centrino but switch back between suse and mandrake 10

it should be the same for mandrake i believe

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