Where can I download linux wireless drivers..

[after1111]

Im using Mandriva 10.1 and I have 2 types of wireless cards (802.11a/b/g PCI wireless adapter & air 5Ghz PCMCIA wireless adapter - (:`(. Ive been looking for the drivers but no luck. Both adapters working fine on windows xp.

If any 1 know where I can download the drivers/other alternatives to pump up the packets out of those cards on Linux, then pls let me know.

Thanks in advance.

[scottmac]

You'll need to find out which chipset your NICs are using.

If it's a cardbus adapter, try "cardctl ident" from a root prompt.

If it's a PCI-based NIC, try "lspci -v"

These commands may or may not work, depending on your Linux distribution and revision. They are part of a WIFI package, you may (or may not) be able to install the package (depends on your distribution and revision).

Check out http://www.linux-wlan.org (www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html to go directly to the chipset pages)

Another big Linux wireless site is http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi

Most of the current distributions have some flavor of wireless support, older distributions will need a package.

If you can find the O'Reilly book "Linux Unwired" buy it;it's usually discounted because most of the Linux distros are now including WIFI / Cardbus handlers & drivers.

Good Luck

Scott