[NBLUG/talk] my laptop & wireless ethernet

[Rob Orsini]

At 05:23 AM 6/10/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>the way i got my PCMCIA wi-fi card to work with mandrake 9.1 was to
>install without the card in, then put the card in and run the 'Mandrake
>Control Center' tool, and navigate the the hardware section, from there
>the card should be recognized and you can configure it. configuring it
>should prompt you to install the wireless-tools package which includes
>iwconfig among others.
>
>even though my card has a prism2 chipset, the mandrake tool uses the
>orinoco module, which works fine except if you want to run kismet, but
>more on that later.
>
>augie.

Very interesting.  I have another wi-fi card laying around that my not be 
supported (SMC).  I might give that a shot as an exercise.

-Rob