[PLUG] dell 1390 wireless with mandriva..

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I could not get the wireless working yet.  :-(

$/sbin/ifconfig wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:7D:BD:72:B5
          inet addr:192.168.10.51  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:19 Memory:d0200000-d0204000

$/sbin/iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"penguin.xxxxxxxxx.xxx"
          Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Cell: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Also for wired eth0 interface I get in "dmesg"
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
But for wireless wlan0 interface I do **not** get such line which
obviously means a fauilure :-(

I do get a follwoing line in there
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
despite my being able to ping to wlan0 ip address... but not to any
other external IP.

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