Linksys wireless on laptop
Forum: Networking
Topic: Linksys wireless on laptop
started by: mpg
Posted by mpg on Jan. 31 2006,03:12
Trying to get linksys wireless card ( WPC54G ) working on a gateway laptop with a frugal install (2.4.31). I copied the drivers and ran " ndiswrapper -i /home/dsl/LSBCMNDS.inf ". When i do " ndiswrapper -l " it says driver present, hardware present. When i do " iwconfig " it says no wireless extensions. My question is what is the next step? Am i missing something?
Posted by hs7sv on Jan. 31 2006,06:36
Please read < this >. It may help you.
Posted by Mofarocker33 on Feb. 01 2006,10:58
hm... so you said to ndiswrapper which Device needs the driver and you get nor Error and it doesn`t work?maybe you try it wih Linux firmware for your device, just google.
Posted by mpg on Feb. 03 2006,03:57
i tried following the instructions in the other post ... but when i do "iwconfig wlan0" i get "wlan0 No such device" ... how do i get wlan0 to be seen as a device? Is this evidence that the driver is not working? Also, if i do wlcardconfig i get no wireless network card found ... in case that helps
Posted by hs7sv on Feb. 03 2006,06:38
You should run ndiswrapper -m command after ndiswrapper -l :-| Code Sample |
| ndiswrapper -i filename.inf ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present ndiswrapper -m Adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf |
Please try again. Good luck
Posted by AwPhuch on Feb. 04 2006,00:06
| Quote (mpg @ Feb. 02 2006,22:57) |
| i tried following the instructions in the other post ... but when i do "iwconfig wlan0" i get "wlan0 No such device" ... how do i get wlan0 to be seen as a device? Is this evidence that the driver is not working? Also, if i do wlcardconfig i get no wireless network card found ... in case that helps |
iwconfig wlan0 with nothing behind it is a query...not a setting entry...
Remember you must be root or sudo su when trying a major systemwide change such as this
| Quote (hs7sv @ Jan. 15 2006,21:14) |
| try another way ... # iwconfig wlan0 essid "Your Network" key 0123456789 |
Brian
AwPhuch
Posted by i. valdes on Feb. 05 2006,10:11
i have the same card and it will work on dsl, however there is another issue-acpi. acpi must be disabled or it will screw up your connections.i'm surprised that this issue has not been addressed at dsl.
Posted by mpg on Feb. 05 2006,15:04
i have run ndiswrapper -m ... when i do modprobe -c ... i see the line "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" ... do i need to run some modprobe command? i still get no such device when i do iwconfig wlan0 ...