How do I get a wireless card to work?

[geoff@gbrunner.org]

Got Mandriva installed on an older HP Pavilion this afternoon. The big problem is that I can not get it to go on line. I have both a Eithernet connection through a linksys wireless router as well as a linksys Wireless-B Notebook Adapter Model No. WPC11 ver. 4. This is what I would like to use for portability. What do I need to do to get online?

[daark.child]

The first thing you need to do is figure out what chipset the card uses. You can do this by starting a terminal e.g. konsole or gnome-terminal and entering the command

/sbin/lspci | grep -i net

If you get a command not found error, you need to install the pciutils package and then run the command again.

If the card uses a chipset which is supported by Linux, then you can use that driver, otherwise you can install ndiswrapper which will enable you to use your Windows driver.