wireless networking problem

[jjones]

I have tried to setup my Acer 3003wlmi laptops wireless card (Broadcom 802.11g network adapter) on FC4 using ndis wrapper following the guide found here http://www.linuxforums.com/forum/t44780-getting-a-wireless-lan-card-to-work-on-linux.html[/URL]
Everything is going fine until I get to the part about configuring DHCP. I enter the command "dhcpcd wlan0" but it comes back as command not recognized. Can anyone point me to the proper command to set this up. Everything else seems to be working alright. I can reciever my routers ESSID and get its MAC address but can't connect. I think that this could be the problem.

[crewmanchell]

Hello there,
I have had the oppertunity to try out a wireless network card with the Broadcom chipset, and a wireless network card with a Ralink chipset.

I had no sucsess in getting a :

Wireless 11G card by Minitar, prod no: MN54GPC

To work under mandrake. I believe this could be because the broadcom chipset is not supported under the GPL.

The Ralink card i tried was:

Wireless 11G card by Minitar, prod no: MN54GPC-R

I found that a simple search engine search using the term "ralink" yielded much support including drivers etc...

The drivers were not necessary because mandrake detected the card straight away! and I was using a wifi connection before I knew it.

Also i was taken by the stability this card had to offer...

A search for minitar wireless will also give you the opertunity to buy online off a company called comlynx communications, as I did, and recieved the item almost next day!

Hope this helps

Mike

[deltaflyer]

@jjones do you have encryption turned on at your router? if so,turn it off temporarily to see if you can connect

andy

[jimbaloo]

Or try

dhclient wlan0

[jjones]

dhclient was the answer. Thanks.