I am using a Prism 2.x chipset USB wireless device with Debian. It was a pain to set up but I found that the orinoco drivers were not compatable. I had to use the linux-wlan-ng drivers (http://www.linux-wlan.org/). As part of my installation, I modified the hotplug configuration files to automatically load the prism2_usb driver when hotplug detected it. I would guess that you are having module issues and if you find the right module then the rest will fall into place. Jeff Rasmussen -----Original Message----- From: Justin Cooper [mailto:coop0030 at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 1:57 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [TCLUG] New member - Mandrake 10.0 pcmcia wireless card question Hello, I am a new member to the TCLUG. I never even knew that there was a local Linux users group until a couple of days ago. Hopefully I will be able to attend the next meeting. Onto my question... I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my Compaq Presario 2105US laptop (not the best piece of computing machinery...) and I am having difficulty with my PCMCIA wireless card. It is a Netgear MA401ra card. The second I put it in my computer Linux does a hard freeze, and I have to reboot. I have hotplug enabled. It also causes the boot process to freeze right after it is detected as a PCMCIA device. I don't think it is the actual PCMCIA that is causing the problems, because that loads up just fine (I don't have any other cards to test it out though). I have excluded a few IRQ's in the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file to no avail. I have also double checked that the orinoco_cs drivers are being loaded for the card (I believe it is a Prism 2.x chipset, which should be compatible with the orinoco drivers). I am thoroughly stumped on this one, and am about to try switching to a new linux distro. If I were to switch, which distro would be the most compatible with a PCMCIA wireless card? I was looking at SUSE, but I have seen others talk about Slackware 9.1. I am a relatively new to linux, although, I have successfully installed, and used linux using Red Hat 6.x, and Mandrake 9.x. Any help or advice would be appreciated greatly! The new member, Justin Cooper coop0030 at hotmail.com coop0030 at d.umn.edu _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page - FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list