What does dmesg tell you? Has the kernel even loaded a module for the wireless card?

You will probably need ndiswrapper and the *.inf *.sys files from the windows driver to make it work.

Cheers

Mike

-----Original Message----- From: Ian McDonald imcdnzl@gmail.com Sent: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:41:48 +1200 To: Waikato Linux Users Group wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [wlug] Problem with wireless, Can anybody help?

On 14/06/05, linuxmdkuser linuxmdkuser@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

I bought Sony VAIO laptop K-415B and installed there Mandriva LE 2005. Everything is ok, just cannot make connection via Wi-Fi. Seemes that there is problem with driver or something like that, cuz it doesnot recognize wifi. Does anybody have experience with sony vaio or how to solve this?

I don't have experience with Sony Vaio but do have experience with wireless.

When you say you cannot make connection can you give a few more details: - what wireless network card does this machine have? (You may need to look at manual to find out easily) - are you trying to use no security, WEP or WPA? (i.e. what are you trying to connect to) - does it work in Windows if you still have that on the machine? - can you give any error messages?

Ian

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