ndiswrapper in dsl2.4Forum: Networking Topic: ndiswrapper in dsl2.4 started by: dslracer Posted by dslracer on May 17 2006,19:17
Hellodsl is the best distribution to me but since ver. 2.4 i have a problem: With dsl 2.3 no problems with ndiswrapper and my rt2500 driver in dsl 2.4 the installation of the driver seems ok but i can''t get an ip adress with: sudo pump -i wlan0 anyone an idee?? please help Posted by roberts on May 17 2006,19:56
Is it the same device name as before?What does iwconfig show as the device name? Posted by dslracer on May 17 2006,20:56
iwconfig shows: lo no wireless extensions eth0 no wireless extensions after the command: sudo modprobe ndiswrapper i have ...wlan0 Posted by roberts on May 17 2006,21:13
You may want to visit the ndiswrapper support area.I am sure the ndiswrapper devs would like to know that their later versions have this issue. Or possibly, their site might direct you to alternate windows drivers for your card. This chipset seems to be the most problematic for most SMP based Linux distros. Posted by dslracer on May 18 2006,06:21
i tried another card: lynksys wpc11 ver.4 with driver net8180 this worked very good with dsl 2.3 but i'm having the same problems with dsl2.4 (new ndiswrapper) Posted by roberts on May 18 2006,21:21
Ah, that's very interesting because I am using that very card with DSL v2.4 and ndiswrapper!Works great. Posted by dslracer on May 19 2006,19:12
Robert...what other hardware do you use ?? i have a comaq armada e500. with my lynksys (wpc11 ver.4 with driver net8180) card i see a wlan0 (after modprobe ndiswrapper) but... i can't get an ip-addres sudo pump wlan0 --> operation failed (not in dsl 2.3) many thanks anyway.. Posted by roberts on May 19 2006,19:40
I have a couple of ibm thinkpads to test with.A T20 and a 240. My hunch is that you may be experiencing IRQ conflicts. Especially when using new(er) wireless card with old(er) hardware. If you try this: $ dmesg | grep IRQ then look for Sharing and the irq involved. New(er) hardware is better at irq assignments/sharing. If you see such sharing happening then you can see what device it is by... lspci -v | grep xx:xx.x where the x is the device number show from the above grep of dmesg Possible to assign different irq via BIOS or during modprobe? I have tested ndiswrapper with four different wireless devices and all work fine. But then I don't have irq conflicts with these devices. I have one atheros card that does have such a conflict. HTH |