SpeedStream 1021 WLAN Configuration

[jachung]

Hi everybody. I just installed mandrake 9.2 on my laptop but I want to use my SpeedStream 1021 Wireless Card but mandrake will just show "Unsupported Card". I know that this card uses the Prims2 chipset and it's compatible with linux but how can I make it work. Please take in consideration that im a total linux noob!!

TIA

[mdwatts]

Have you tried manually loading the module? As root

modprobe prism2_cs

[jachung]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Have you tried manually loading the module? As root

modprobe prism2_cs

Ok, I just tryed that and nothing happened. I have installed the prims2_cs package and the wlan package. What else can I do. and like I said, take in consideration that im a noob!!

TIA

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by jachung
Ok, I just tryed that and nothing happened.

You typed in

modprobe prism2_cs

and no error messages? That would mean the module was successfully loaded.

Check with

lsmod

and look for the module and then

ifconfig

to see if eth0 is active (or whatever device wlan uses).

You likely need to setup and configure networking using whatever network config tools your distro provides.