Ramza500

Sweet. I appreciate it. I really want to start using my wlan because there is some fun stuff I can do with it... Soon I want to switch, for the most part, over to linux, minus some games. Thanks to you all for the help!

Thanks guys, I appreciate the help. Who said Linux wasn't user-friendly?

That's what I figured. I have an orinoco Gold card on my older laptop that I was playing around with smaller Distro's (DSL etc.) so I can always steal from that. So my best option would probably be just to wait for Mandrake Update to support that hardware, huh? Thanks for the info!

Update-- I don't know why I didn't find this earlier but I managed to fix my battery problem. ACPI and ACPID had to be enabled on boot and I couldn't find that option. My battery meter works now But wireless is still a no-go ;(

I've been toying with linux on and off for the past few years. I decided I'd finally learn it for my job and for school. I bought a new laptop and decided I would try to put Mandrake 10.0 on there. Usually I avoid such things and put it on an older (machine which would also make me stop using linux). I have several problems-- Firstly, I would like to use wireless internet with my Intel 2200BG. Now, I've been to http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ and when I got to step 2, I was reading the instructions there and it said if "In the rare cases where your kernel isn't compiled with Wireless Extensions (/proc/net/wireless non-existent), you need to recompile it with Wireless Extensions (CONFIG_NET_RADIO enabled)." Well, to a newbie, 'recompile' and 'kernel' in the same sentence = bad. So I figured I'd try to skip that problem for now and go to my Battery issue. Well, lo-and-behold, I need to recompile it for that issue as well. My question is this, can someone please help me with the recompile issue? How do you do this? Where do I stick those lines for the wireless stuff and battery issues--any place? Could I just download a new kernel from www.kernel.org and use that or would that mess everything up with Mandrake (I'm assuming yes.) Also, would anyone happen to know if Mandrake 10 has CPU throttling for the Intel Centrino? Thank you VERY much!