I installed DSL to my HD, and have been steadily adding applications. I have a PCI wifi card, made by D-link, model number dwl-g510 rev. b
I ran iwconfig, and i did not see wlan0 (only eth0, which is my current connection). I assume that ndiswrapper will not work if the OS does not recognize that a wireless card is even installed, correct?
This computer is relatively old: it is a Pentium 3 500mhz, 6.3gb harddrive, Dell Optiplex. I know that my wifi card will work with ndiswrapper, only because I had it working on another machine with Fedora Core 3.
Any suggestions?
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I know that my wifi card will work with ndiswrapper
So use ndiswrapper.
-J.P.
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I know that my wifi card will work with ndiswrapper
So use ndiswrapper.
-J.P.
indeed i would, however wlan0 has to be present in iwconfig for it to work, which it is not. My question is, how do I get it to show there?I may be mistaken, (not able to check right now), but I believe that mine says eth0 in iwconfig and it works fine. You can type 'ifconfig' and check the info it gives you. Also check for/read the file 'netcard' in /etc/sysconfig. If you see your card than go ahead and give ndiswrapper a try.Install your Windows driver - sudo ndiswrapper -i /<path_to_mydriver>/<mydriver>.inf
Now check that ndiswrapper lists this driver as installed - sudo ndiswrapper -l
Now load ndiswrapper - sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
Use iwconfig to set up your wireless network. Use pump to obtain an IP address. By default ndiswrapper creates network interfaces called ethxx, so if you already have an interface eth0, ndiswrapper should create eth1 ... or vice-versa.
Alternatively, your Atheros chipset is supported by the MADWiFi drivers already in DSL (although it's possible that your adapter requires a newer version of MADWiFi) so you could try "sudo modprobe ath_pci". In fact, you should possibly run "lsmod" because DSL may have automatically loaded this module (ath_pci) already.Next Page...
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