Wireless Internet... How?

Forum: Networking
Topic: Wireless Internet... How?
started by: andeb328

Posted by andeb328 on June 26 2006,20:44

I'm sort of a newbie at linux, but i did mangage to install DSL to my harddrive properly. I currently don't have any internet on it at all, and this is what i want to use the OS for primarily. I have a Belkin "Wireless G Notebook Network Card", that worked fine with Windows 2000 that i was using previously on the laptop. (this laptop is very old and i'm experimenting, but i really need the internet on it ASAP). The router at my house is compatible with it, but when i try DSL doesn't recognize the wireless card. How do i make it recognize the card and enable me to use the interent? Thanks so much to those who can and will help me!

Posted by andeb328 on June 27 2006,16:20

bump

Posted by u2musicmike on June 27 2006,19:27

I am new at this too so my advice might not be the best. Anyway I had a different wireless card and I used ndiswrapper. Check to see if there is drivers at the source forge web site from the article that Green posted: < ndiswrapper >

If you find drivers for your card, save them in the home/dsl directory then open the control panel and click on ndiswrapper. Type in the path and driver name. It should start working.

Posted by andeb328 on June 27 2006,21:37

I found the driver that the DSL Wiki says i should get so i downloaded it to a CD-RW but how do i take a file (in this case the driver) from a Cd and put it somewhere in DSL. (Yes i'm sure this is a newbie question, but i have no idea)

Posted by u2musicmike on June 27 2006,22:31

I didn't know the DSL Wiki had stuff like that. I only read this forum most of the time. Anyway if you have the drivers just click on the file cabinet icon (emelfm?) and one side should be /home/dsl and the other you can pick your directory by double clicking and you may have to right click and mount for /cdrom. If you are running DSL from a CD I don't think it will let you remove it to put in your CD-RW. Maybe you should transfer the drivers to a USB or floppy. Mounting is a little different from Windows but all you do is go to the /mnt directory and right click on what you need to mount. Don't be afraid to search this forum.

Posted by andeb328 on June 27 2006,23:13

I loaded DSL onto my harddrive so i'm not running a DOS. But yeah the Wiki isn't really working well, you're not even able to create account... or at least i can't for some reason.

Posted by andeb328 on June 28 2006,23:10

Ok i've installed the driver that Wiki said i needed for my Belkin Wireless Internet Card... So what's next? What do i do then to enable me to use the internet. I don't really get the entire Ndiswrapper thing, so can someone please help me out. (Please excuse me for being a newbie).