Have you searched everywhere in the internet in search of a approach to will let you use your wireless community card along with your pc. Nicely fortunate for you there's a program referred to as ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper is a program that will can help you use a Windows driver in your wi-fi gadget below linux.I can not promise you that each one wi-fi adapters will likely be supported with your linux distro. So if your about to purchase a new wi-fi card, please test the record of known wifi cards to work below.

The very first thing that you're going to need to do to get your wireless community card to work on your mandriva linux distro is to download a windows driver from the checklist of cards supported. If you can't discover a driver that is in the record, it's also possible to strive looking out on the manufacturing web page, yahoo or google. If you're looking out at a search engine strive typing within the model number of the wireless card + driver, for example "F5D9050 driver".

For the best results, try utilizing a home windows xp driver in your wi-fi device. For my example I am utilizing a Belkin Wi-fi G Plus MIMO ver 3001, with a mannequin number of F5D9050. After you have got downloaded the motive force for you wireless adapter, you may have to extract or unzip the file. What you can be searching for is a file with the extensions of .INF. More then possible your file will finish with the file extensions of .EXE, so this means you could extract this file some how. In my example I have unzipped my driver to /residence/administrator/Drivers. To extract a file named setup.exe, open a terminal and log in as su, then kind:

cabextract setup.exe

OR

unzip setup.exe

After you will have unzipped your windows driver install program, you now must affiliate this windows driver along with your wireless device. To configure you wi-fi gadget in mandriva linux go to:

1. Menu Button

2. Tools

3. System Tools

4. Configure your Computer

5. Then click the Network and Internet tab on the left

6. Finally click set up a new network interface (LAN, ISDN, ADSL, ...)

First click on wireless. Choose the selection for a home windows driver with ndiswrapper. Now select the .inf file that you simply extracted or unzipped earlier and select ok. If every little thing has gone okay thus far, then it's best to have a display that resembles the one below. All you must do now is select the wireless community that you are making an attempt to hook up with and type in your safety key in your wi-fi router. For security causes all the time use some form of safety key in your wireless router(s), I recommend WPA2, but WPA will work. WEP keys are really weak and can be broken within minutes, with the correct software.

After you've gotten entered you safety key, you will in all probability set the device with dhcp and let you manage this device, since this may be a laptop computer and can permit you to simply configure your wi-fi device will you're on the street, resembling connecting to public scorching spots corresponding to McDonald and occasional houses.