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Terry Hill wrote: > I've got mandriva "one" installed downstairs - I downloaded a few > other distros (mint, debian) and found they all had the same screen > issues mentioned yesterday, so I'm going to have to stay with mandriva > for now. I also had a look at gentoo and decided that it was way over > my head for now. > > I grabbed the WG111T drivers (1.2 version) from netgear, su'd to root > and installed them: > > ndiswrapper -i athfmwdl.inf > ndiswrapper -i netwg11t.inf > > depmod -a > modprobe ndiswrapper > > all good up to this point, the light came on that sits in the dongle. > At this point, the network applet popped up and said "wlan0 > connected". Futher investigation showed that it was just "up" but not > connected to anything. > > I tried to configure the network, but I get "wireless-tools" not installed. > > If I try > > iw list wlan0 scan > > I get "iwl80211 missing" > > Any ideas on how to get the wireless-tools package installed without > any connectivity? I can download stuff onto a usb stick and take it > to the other pc, but searching around seems to find some fairly old > advice/opinions that I'm not sure are that relevant to this version of > the distro.. > > have you tried the mandriva forum? i seem to remember they have one similar to ubuntu. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html