DSL Tips and Tricks :: Trick to loading wireless card (Dell 1350)



Quote (roberts @ April 16 2006,10:53)
Using these cards without Windows, I always copy the their Windows drivers to my home directory in dsl.

This too, makes it very simple and thus will avoid the frustration that you encountered.

Maybe dropping the /mnt/hda1/windows/ from the text box is a good suggestion?


For some reason, that didn't work and the card wouldn't connect. It also didn't connect when I used a deeper path on my C drive.
My point being is that DSL using ndiswrapper is not married to having Windows installed on the machine.

The several cards that I tested for various users was on a machine with no Windows installed.
Only Windows drivers were needed and obtained from the ndsiwrapper site at sourceforge.

I did not install any of the drivers in Windows, not did I even test the cards within Windows.

DSL is designed to be nomadic and not dependent on being installed or requiring other OS to function.

I am glad that you have a solution. It is never a problem when something works.

But I will always follow up a post which makes one thing that DSL would require a mounted Windows partition in order to function.
Quote (safesys @ April 16 2006,15:42)
just:

mount /dev/hda1

should do the trick  - assuming it is hda1 partition you want to mount - and make it accessible via /mnt/hda1



Thanks.  For some reason, I can't get DSL to save the edited file to disk.  Hda1 is mounted, I've saved the Beaver file, and used the backup feature through the fluxbox system.  Anyway, the command works fine (I checked it via the terminal), and I'll try and figure out how to load it.
Quote (roberts @ April 16 2006,17:19)
My point being is that DSL using ndiswrapper is not married to having Windows installed on the machine.

The several cards that I tested for various users was on a machine with no Windows installed.
Only Windows drivers were needed and obtained from the ndsiwrapper site at sourceforge.

I did not install any of the drivers in Windows, not did I even test the cards within Windows.

DSL is designed to be nomadic and not dependent on being installed or requiring other OS to function.

I am glad that you have a solution. It is never a problem when something works.

But I will always follow up a post which makes one thing that DSL would require a mounted Windows partition in order to function.

The card didn't work if loaded from  inside the Windows partition (I attempted that so that I could use the default path in the text box).  It only worked when I moved the files using DSL directly onto hda1 (after first attempting to load from /home/dsl, which didn't work).
if you can clarify what mean by "I can't get DSL to save the edited file to disk." then someone might have come across it before and be able to help save you some time.
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