Networking :: ndiswrapper worked, but my card isnt there...

Quote (tehjones @ Mar. 22 2007,22:44)

ndiswrapper -l does tell me that my card and drivers are good, but when i try to do the iwconfig, it says "driver installed, hardware present".

and just so you dont think im a totaly tard, i can get a wireless card to work, just not my internal one.

i have a linksys usb wireless adapter that i had just sitting around, so i threw that in there and it works fine. i just dont want to have a usb network card hanging off the side of my laptop all the time. :D

Is it showing up as a device in ifconfig? lspci? lsusb?

Hi ! I've noticed that ndiswrapper doesnt quite work the same way under
DSL as in KNOPPIX. In Knoppix the -i and then -m was sufficient to get
the driver loaded and the device available for ifconfig/iwconfig but under
DSL I issue only -i to install the driver (same as yours since I have a linksys
cardbus adapter too) and issue 'update-modules', once or possibly several times. I also issue ndiswrapper -l in the hopes that it will kick the driver in. Eventually the device shows up on the list accompanied by the kernel messages. I suspect that you probably can get by with just issuing the update-modules and then wait a few minutes (yes minutes) and it will become available. Odd, I know but that's how I've seen it. The delay is possibly related to some synchronising it's doing with the access point. Dunno for sure. Never used dhcp for wireless so I'm not sure how that will work from that point on. Probably would though.
/ Peter

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