[ale] DLink DWL-520 or SMC2402W wireless card Mandrake 10.0 anyone have any advice?

[Geoffrey]

Jay wrote:
> Ok, I get from lspci:
> 
> 00:0d.o Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless 
> Interface

Hmmm... Okay, see what 'lspci -n' spits out and post that.

> 
> "modprobe firmware_class" returned nothing, it just completed without 
> any output

That should be a good thing.  Do the following and post the output:

lsmod|grep firmware

> 
> and "cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug" returned: /sbin/hotplug

That's good.

> 
> It looks like this thing is using the ACX100 driver, but that didnt want 
> to work either, and now I've been trying to get the prism54 stuff to 
> work with it...very confusing for a newbie like myself.

We want to make sure your card has the prism54 chipset.  'lspci -n' will 
give us vendor data and this will properly identify the card.

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