wireless network card not supported

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: wireless network card not supported
started by: Bilal

Posted by Bilal on May 29 2006,19:41

so i have this nice laptop, amd 64 bit with 2.4 gh. and 1.5 g of ram..

the sound card is not supported nor the wireless. the wireless card is broadcom 802.11 g network adaptor according to windows device manager.

my soundcard is conexant.

does mydsl site have any of the drivers .. the wireless is the most important for now.

peace

Posted by ZoOp on May 29 2006,20:49

Hi,
try ndiswrapper in order to install the winxp driver for your card; or have a look at the wiki in order to get a wlan card working with dsl; or install dsl-n.
yours
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Posted by Bilal on May 29 2006,21:26

i have tried dsl-n with kernel 2.6 but tht didnt work.. i assume that if it was working the card will detect a the network and connect just like windows does ,right ?

does dsl have ndiswrapper in mydsl page ?

how do i use it , i heard tht i have to find the driver for the card in windows then let the program use it "emulate" i guess the driver to work on linux using api to translate between windows and linux instruction.

help and suggestion is very appreciated.

thanks

Posted by hs7sv on May 30 2006,03:17

< This thread > may be helpful. Good luck

Posted by Bilal on May 30 2006,20:23

grrr,

ill just wait tell those drivers r part of the linux kernel.

now do i have to do all the iwconfig thing is i had the driver ?

i mean if i go to barns and nobels and they have free wireless connection wouldnt my linux detect and connect to it auto or let me know at least like windows ?

do i have to do all things by hand here ?

peace

Posted by Gerro on July 27 2006,20:01

you need airsnort or rogue scanner to detect networks and information about them.

Posted by Ploppy on Sep. 19 2006,14:57

I have the same problem , cant get USB WLAN Sticks to work , ndiswrapper brings 0 result at all.If somebody finds a trick about this it should be placed at the DSL mainsite I think.
About the soundcard I at least know one possibility. If it is a Soundblaster compatible you can manually type in a "modprobe" command in the bash window.
In my case it was an older ISA card wich can be activated with
"modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 isapnp=0" , this line could also be added to the "bootlocal.sh" script so the card is ready at bootup.
Please dont ask me for newer cards , since they dont have any IRQs anymore,maybe the manufacturer has some data for users.
Simply typing "modprobe sb io=0x220" could bring a result too, with some luck ;)