I have sorted out the Wireless wizard now using the Mandriva Control Centre (I have to work through the GUI) and do get prompted for the root password<br><br>I cannot configure my network except by using Ndiswrapper and the Windows driver, however although I did get the network running, showing it was connected to my wireless router, I could not access any web pages through the browser<br>
<br>then the system froze, I rebooted and had to configure the network again, but this time an error message proclaimed that the ndiswrapper was not present<br><br>I came across this reference in the Wikipedia, maybe this is happening to me?<br>
<br>"NDISwrapper is useful for a live CD/DVD, but has been reported to cause
system crashes and freezes. Version 1.52 of 2 February 2008, states
"Fixed kernel crash when CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ is enabled". And,
certainly, the inability to use the drivers on other architectures such
as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC" title="PowerPC">PowerPC</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha" title="Alpha">Alpha</a> is a severe limitation."<br><br>with regard to trying to configure the network the Linux way, I still seem to come back to the problem that this file (/lib/firmware/ipw2200-*.fw) is missing and I can't put the file there even though I have downloaded it from sourceforge<br>
<br>Steve<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/14 Desmond Armstrong <<a href="mailto:desmond.armstrong@gmail.com">desmond.armstrong@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On the Wi-Fi simply open the Mandriva Control Panel and you need the administrator password for this then setup the adsl etc, select wireless, it will find your Intel ipw2200 insert system disk etc. After this you will find the firmware for the ipw2200 in /lib/firmware.<br>
It helps also if you are on the internet through the ethernet as there may be newer packages than those on the DVD.<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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