WiFi with mandrake

[Derek Atkins]

Duane Morin <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> writes:

> Ok, I replaced my laptop's hard drive and while I was at it upgraded to 
> Mandrake 9.1.  I'm trying to get wireless working but something seems to 
> have changed.  On my old machine (Mandrake 8.x) I had an interface wlan0 
> configured, and kept eth0 for my Xircom ethernet card.

Yea, not surprising...

> Mandrake 9 seems to detect my wireless Netgear card, but wants to call it 
> eth0.  I can live with that.  The problem is that it's not working and I 
> can't just copy my old scripts from the other box because they're all on 
> wlan0.

M-x replace-string wlan0 eth0

> In particular, the setup wizard wants me to specify a bunch of wireless 
> parameters to be associated with the network device, such as NWID, FREQ 
> (but no CHANNEL, which I would have expected) and WEP KEY.  In particular 
> I know my wep key but don't know what format it wants me to type it in.

Are you actually using Ad-Hoc mode?  If you're in Managed Mode then you
should not need to specify the FREQ.

> I've been googling around for some help but haven't found anything yet.
> 
> Duane

-derek

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