Networking :: ndiswrapper and the rtl8180 chipset

Howdy. I always wondered if ndiswrapper would be added to DSL. Anywho, I have the rtl8180 chipset in my wifi card. here's what happened:

# ndiswrapper -i /mnt/hda3/etc/rtl8180/netr8180.inf
(it then says it the driver was loaded sucessfully)
# ndiswrapper -l
(device present is displayed)
# modprobe ndiswrapper
(says it was loaded and lsmod shows it loaded)

At this point, the card comes alive but every 5 seconds, the Link LED will flash about 10 times and during these flashes, the system will not respond to keyboard input.

I did use the network card config tool and I selected "DHCP broadast" but it says it failed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Maybe there is already a Linux driver loaded that is trying to talk to your card and it is conflicting with your ndiswrapper driver.

Try booting with "dsl failsafe", or better yet try and do an "sudo rmmod modulename" on any network module that is loaded. You can see your modules by typing "sudo lsmod | more"

From your post you stopped at modprobe.
There are other wlan commands other than netcardconfig would provide.

May I suggest to try the GUI for ndiswrapper

From main menu System->Net Setup->ndsiwrapper

No words can explain how happy I am. I rtf wiki at ndiswrapper.sf.net and I found an example startup script there that worked. (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/StartupScripts).

Thanks guys,
Zach

Thank you for posting the link to the startup scripts that worked for you:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/StartupScripts

It's very helpful to provide this information for other people to use.

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