Networking :: ndiswrapper

Josh-

I'm no expert with ndiswrapper but I might be able to shed a little light. If your Windows machine automatically connects and you never gave it any sort of password previously then there is probably no encryption. The other fields in the GUI are device (your NIC), SSID and WEP key. The device will most likely be "wlan0". That was automatically populated on my machine. SSID is the name of the network you connect to. (Examples: linksys, JoshWifi, netgear- whatever the admin named it.) If you don't know what it is you may need to go into Windoze and open the wifi utility to check. The WEP key is only needed if WEP encryption is set up on the router. I don't use WEP at home so I'm not sure if this field should be populated with the ASCII or HEX key. (Anyone know for sure?) If you don't have WEP on your router just leave that field blank.

I also have an .inf and a .sys file. I put both in a folder together- not sure if the .sys is needed so I put it in there just in case. My drivers are located in a folder in my home dir:
/home/dsl/wifi/lsbcmnds.inf

Is your card internal or PCI? Do you know what chipset it uses? Have you tried to get it working without ndiswrapper?

Good luck!

internal wifi card

original here.