Someone else with same problem: http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/showarchive.php?arc=81587 Might try bios settings, esp. legacy USB. Might try Knoppix CD, if it works run lsmod to find which module was loaded. May have different chipsets in same model card, requiring different driver. Their is also a Wireless User Group: http://www.tcwug.org/ Bob Justin Cooper wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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