Wireless Lan

["John T. Williams" <jtwilliams@vt.edu>]

Anyone here know where I can find a could set of instructions for setting up
wireless on a linux laptop?


I need do figure out how to:

1.  get my wireless card into the database that cardmngr uses, because it
just looks blankly at me when I insert a card and tells me that a hot
switchable card has been inserted and doesn't know what file to associate
with it, and I don't know how to tell it, when this hardware id it entered
associate it with this driver file.

2.  Also, I've been using http://linux.wlan.org to try to set it up because
it says it supports my card, but the instruction don't actually include
anything on what do do have you have successfully compiled it and installed
it, and again it just stares at me blankly.  It includes about 30 scripts
and maybe I'll be able to get it to do something when I get the cardmgr
working, but I really wish someone there was working are documenting how to
use it, not just how to compile and install it.

3.  Configuration is ambigous at best, but I figure I'll be able to get it
working by playing around with it once I've figured out what file I need to
assosicate with my wireless card and how to get cardmgr to stop looking at
me blankly.

Specs
i386  (Mandrake 9.1)
gcc 3.2
my card is the
      Linksys 802.11a/g WPC55AG Cardbus Atheros


Any help, or pointers towards help would be very nice.



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