[kyle]

Anybody got a Lucent Technologies Orinoco wireless pcmcia card to work on a laptop.
Laptop also has an in built LAN adapter (eth0)

Prob 1 -- eth0 always is up whether or not it's bought down (ifcongig eth0 down) -- also set to Don't start at boot -- no avail

Eth1 with my laptop wireless card gets same ip address as eth0 -- and there doesn't seem to be any way to set this as a different address to eth0.

So as soon as I try and connect -- system hangs as 2 pieces of hardware have same Ip address

anybody else tried the supposed "Bug Free" Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo yet -- it's on mirrors all over the place now.

Desktop works fine

but I think I'm going back to Red hat 7.2 on the laptop -- I can live without sound or DVD on a laptop but I NEED wireless and it worked. I can't remember what I did but I can just restore partition images - Bruback / power quest Drive image. ( I tried Redhat 8 and red hat Phoebe -- Wireless also failed to work on my laptop so what on earth is in RH 7.1 that keeps working when newer distros give up the ghost)

Help appreciated as this distro (Bamboo) looks great.