Networking :: linksys WPC54G

I know you've probably never heard this before... but the WPC54g is difficult to get working in linux. I have run NdisWrapper with the .inf from the linksys cd. "ndisrapper -l" reads "lsbcmnds hardware present"... a good sign... "modprobe ndiswrapper"... no visable errors... "iwconfig" outputs "lo no wireless extensions"... not so good, and now i'm stuck. Any help on the topic is appreciated.

-Kryptus3

PS: Running DSLinux .9

Maybe this helps. I don't own the card so I cannot test myself:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/41/2004/06/4/195006

i tried what the site said, but dmesg prints "

ndiswrapper version .10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
PCI: Setting Latency timer of device 02:00.0 to 64
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gpf=0x21/0)
ndiswrapper )NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:997): Failed to allocate DMA coherent memory. Windows driver requested 4096 bytes of cached memory

ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:196): log C0001389, length: 1 (0000000c)

ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1458): Windows driver couldn't initilize the device
'

Thanks for the post. It's a start, still stuck though...

Hello,

Just following up on this old thread. I have the same problem getting wpc54g v2 to work. No love so far.

Using ndiswrapper to load the original inf driver file from Linksys

ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf

must work because when I do this:

ndiswrapper -l

it reports that the driver was loaded and the hardware is present.

but wlcardconfig doesn't see any hardware. nor does iwlist.

and the gui iwconfig allows me to enter details, but when the window disappears, there are no apparent changes to my connectivity.

I've also found these links which are relevant but didn't help:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5645
http://ch.twi.tudelft.nl/~arthur/wpc54g/
http://www.wasab.dk/morten....t-linux
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questio....tid=286
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=wpc54g
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/41/2004/06/4/195006

And if you get farther than I, you may want to use WPA:
http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2004-December/008891.html

But if you got farther than I did... please share!

-Joe

I spent a day or two researching this. Naturally a few minutes after I broke down and asked for help I figured it out. Nice way to introduce yourself to the group!

Anyway, the answer is: if you are copying the necessary files from the CD to your hard drive, make sure not only to copy your lsbcmnds.inf file but ALSO your bcmwl5.sys file. When both are together, then run ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf and it will work.

Cheers,
-Joe

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