Laptops :: Inspiron 700m

Google search for "ipw2200 ndiswrapper" ... 2 examples -
http://linux.vandeplas.com/acer/aspire2012.htm
http://dynevor.hopto.org/linuxiste/10p1/x40_mandrake_10p1.html

As I said in that other post, success may be dependent on the distribution/kernel, but it's worth a try (in DSL).

Even if ndiswrapper does not work in DSL, the knowledge that it's feasible can lead you further ... like installing an updated version of ndiswrapper.

It's not unusual that newer devices are problematic on older kernels, so if ndiswrapper still won't work with DSL I agree with cbagger01 that using a new version of Knoppix (ver 3.9) with boot option "knoppix desktop=fluxbox" could be the easiest solution.

Hi,

Thanks for the links.

Downloaded two versions of the WinXP IPW2200 drivers and used the DSL Control Panel to unse ndiswrapper to install these drivers.

In both cases, got the following:

"lsmod" response:
-----------------------------------------------------
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
af_packet 13544 0 (autoclean)
ndiswrapper 80040 1
ehci-hcd 16616 0 (unused)
mousedev 3832 0 (unused)
etc, etc..................

"ndiswrapper -l" response:
-----------------------------------------------------
Installed ndis drivers:
w22n51 hardware present

However, 'iwconfig' reported no wireless adapters.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Regards,

Geoff.

"w22n51 hardware present"
This is a good start. Hopefully there will be some ndiswrapper experts on the forum who can finish this off for you.
I'm more familiar with wlanctl-ng issues, but let me take a stab - start with my previous point "... you might need other files in addition to the .inf file"
I presume you installed the driver like this -
ndiswrapper -i /xxx/w22n51.inf
Hopefully you had the OTHER Windows driver files in the /xxx directory, especially w22n51.sys?

I just found a tip at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125627 which makes this point more strenuously -
/usr/sbin/loadndisdriver 8086 1043 /lib/windrivers/w70n51.sys /lib/windrivers/w70n51.inf
Aside from the fact that they have a different version of the Windows driver, notice they specify a vendor/ID code, and the Windows .sys file as well as the .inf file.

And regarding the Windows driver version, I'm not sure it was a great idea to follow that link and use that one - it's for a Sony VAIO.
Why not get the Dell driver? -
http://support.dell.com/support....n&s=dhs "Network Drivers"
Intel ® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection v.9.0.2.10, 9.0.2.25, A09
It's a 30MB download, and probably contains a lot of wireless management software as well as the driver itself.

Another guess - it sounds like your system wants some form of network configuration to define a wireless interface.
perhaps you could force ndiswrapper to recognise a wireless interface (?) -
modprobe ndiswrapper if_name=wlan0
... or it might have something to do with your /etc/network/interfaces file.
I think the line "auto lo" should be changed to "auto lo wlan0".

And it might be worth finding an iwconfig howto on the web.

I have downloaded both .sys and .inf files and receive the same error.

Hi,

Thanks again for the suggestions. I have tried a series of device driver versions, in all cases a full set of driver files were available, including inf, sys, cat, etc.

The results are given below:-

typical driver directory contents
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Directory of E:\ipw2200\WLAN9.0.2.25

31/05/05 10:40 PM 188,416 SetupWLD.EXE
25/01/05 11:17 AM 4,849 SetupWLD.ini
03/06/05 09:24 AM 13 verfile.tic
31/05/05 10:46 PM 1,671,168 W29MLRES.DLL
30/04/05 04:03 PM 2,926,208 w29n50.sys
28/05/05 03:50 AM 14,382 w29n51.cat
17/05/05 10:22 AM 119,774 w29n51.INF
30/04/05 04:01 PM 3,281,408 w29n51.sys
03/05/05 07:06 AM 466,944 W29NCPA.DLL
31/05/05 10:40 PM 122,880 WLDMLRES.DLL

driver versions tested
============================================================================
ipw2200 driver version 8.0.12.2
ipw2200 driver version 8.0.12.9
ipw2200 driver version 8.0.12.12
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ndiswrapper -i ..../w22n51.inf - executed without error
ndiswrapper -l - noted that the driver was loaded and the hardware present
modprobe ndiswrapper - wifi panel light lit up but the machine froze (completely), required a hard reset.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ipw2200 driver version 8.1.0.28
ipw2200 driver version 8.1.1.0
ipw2200 driver version 9.0.0.61 (as installed the test machine, a Dell Inspiron 700m)
ipw2200 driver version 9.0.2.25
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ndiswrapper -i ..../w22n51.inf - executed without error
ndiswrapper -l - noted that the driver was loaded and the hardware present
modprobe ndiswrapper - executed without error

resulting dmesg output:

ndiswrapper version 0.10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dff4af0c
printing eip:
dfc55f01
*pde = 1d26c067
*pte = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<dfc55f01>] Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00010296
eax: dff4af00 ebx: dfc660d4 ecx: ffffffff edx: 002e4f00
esi: dff4af00 edi: dfc66000 ebp: 00000000 esp: d8d4feb4
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process loadndisdriver (pid: 735, stackpage=d8d4f000)
Stack: 403a8000 403a7000 dfec6000 dfc660d4 dfc66000 dd99c827 d8d4ff58 dfc56088
dfc66000 dff4af00 000000d0 dd99c800 dd99c800 d8d4ff63 dfc51d3d d8d4ff00
dfc66000 00261000 de153190 d9ccc680 d8d4ff58 00000000 da515740 da515740
Call Trace: [<dfc56088>] [<dfc51d3d>] [<dfc5255a>] [<c012c06b>] [<c012c07f>]
[<c010e1c7>] [<c014cd08>] [<c0108997>] [<dfc5002b>]

Code: 8b 4e 0c 85 c9 74 34 31 db 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8b 54 1e 0c 89

iwconfig found no wireless adapter
-------------------------------------------------------------

Look forward to any futher suggestions.

Regards,

Geoff.

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