Wi-fi drivers

[Rascu]

Can someone point me to the correct thread explaining how to get the drivers for my laptop installation of Mageia3 Gnome to connect to my Cisco Linksys wireless N900 router.

I have been trying for more than three days: reading help, searching the forum, searching for drivers...I could not even get it to connect using a cable connection between the router and laptop to search out the drivers. I would even be willing to buy another CD version of Mageia if assured it contained the necessary wi-fi drivers.

If I wasn't sure Mageia is the Linux distribution I could really love I would just give up and go w/Mint and ultimately only use it infrequently as I have done w/Ubuntu and Fedora in the past.

I'm pretty good at following instructions so if anyone can help I will be most grateful.
thx, d

[Lebarhon]

Hello,
Did you add the nonfree and tainted repositories?
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Software_man ... nd_updates
Did you try with a static IP?
Did you have a look to the firewall ? IPV6 settings ? Do you have enough IP addresses available in the router? Does your router have a filter for MAC addresses ?
Did you try the "ping" command towards the router ?
Some more help on the Mageia wiki:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_wireless_networking