MANDRAKE10 Official on wireless laptop?

[infiniphunk]

Hey crew! Me again. I've been trying and trying but just can't seem to get a wireless connection to work on a Toshiba Satellite A10 laptop. I go through the connection configuration wizard and I'm pretty sure I'm doing it right but it never seems to finally work. On one try it was finding the wireless signal from my hub but when I went to test it by starting Firefox(home page set to Google) it said something along the lines of"not authorized to..."
I'm using Mandrake10 Official. I wonder if its because 128-bit encryption isn't supported? Does anybody have any ideas what I need to to to get it to work? Does anybody know any links to a useful online tutorial??:confused:

[skyshock21]

Any chance your wireless access point has routing capabilities where you locked yourself out? You could try logging into it (most have web interfaces these days) and see if you have restricted access to yourself.

I know with my netgear wireless card, it didn't have any linux drivers. Fortunately the folks over at linuxant.com have developed a cheap middleware program that lets you use the windows drivers that came with the card. I think it's about $20. Not sure if this is an issue in your case however, since you said that you could determine that you were getting a signal...?

[infiniphunk]

OK, I finally got wireless working on the laptop, altho I think I had to drop the encryption on my hub down to 56-bit. I was going to websites no problem and logged onto messenger via amsn no problem. I rebooted the laptop and yay! Its telling me a network device has been removed and do I want to configure it. Why can't mandrake10 just remember the settings I used for the wireless card??? This is a laptop, why is it making a big deal out of the farct that I pulled the network cable out of the back and upon reboot it wants to reset the the wireless configuration. Should I be removing the regular lan connection once I get the wireless working? This is too crazy!!!:mad:

[skyshock21]

Mandrake offers to bring up one (possibly more) of your ethernet devices upon boot. I believe you can use the hardware configuration utility to select which ones you want to enable at boot time.

[infiniphunk]

OK, I can get the wireless to work as eth1; I figured out how to configure it so that it works. I think I have to stick to 64-bit encryption(sorry if I said 56-bit before, tired) but I'll try it with 128. Now I can set it up, problem is, everytime I unplugg the LAN cable and reboot it bugs me to reconfigure a connection that has gone missing. It even did this when I set up eth0 to not start at boot. Now I'll try it by deleting eth0 1st and then trying it. Is this cause its a free download?!?!?! If anyone reads this and knows what I may be doing wrong, please help!!!:(

[Sgood1971]

infiniphunk I had the same problem until I did all of the updates. Not just bugfixes but security too. Then I removed the connection manually rebooted, let MDK find it and said no to the "Do you want to run the config tool?" and then configured manually from MDK Control Center->hardware->eth1->run config tool. It now recognizes on every boot with no problems.