wlcardconfig problem

Forum: Networking
Topic: wlcardconfig problem
started by: atoz

Posted by atoz on Dec. 24 2006,18:00

I have a Linksys WPC11 ver.4 PCMCIA card with the realtek l8180 chipset. I have downloaded the windows XP drivers.

-net8180.inf
-rtl8180.sys

I then used ndiswrapper and installed the drivers and when I use the command:

ndiswrapper -l

everything comes up as normal.

net8180 driver installed, hardware present

I then try to use wlcardconfig to set up the settings for my router. However it comes up on the blue screen saying: No wireless network card found.

How would I go about inputing my:

-SID, WEP, Gateway, and DNS servers?

I believe it may have to do with nodhcp, however I have done a HD install how would I go about using that cheat code now if that is the correct course of action. Thanks in advance.

Posted by roberts on Dec. 24 2006,20:30

After the ndiswrapper -l and before your use the wlanconfig you need to use

modprobe ndiswrapper

Posted by atoz on Jan. 01 2007,01:34

Okay I have redone this using these commands.

ndiswrapper -i net8180.inf
ndiswrapper -l
net8180 driver installed, hardware present
depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper

Still there is no wireless extension. Where am I going wrong. iwconfig and wlcardconfig do not work.

Posted by roberts on Jan. 01 2007,06:06

WPC11 ver.4 PCMCIA card works great with DSL and ndiswrapper.
It is the very card I used to test wpasupplicant.

It must be your windows drivers. I used the ones as listed on the ndiswrapper site.

ndiswrapper -i NET8180.INF
ndiswrapper -l
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid my_network_essid
wpa_supplicant -B -Dndiswrapper -i wlan0 -c /home/dsl/wpa_supplicant.conf
pump -i wlan0

works great!

Of much easier if not using wpasupplicant and only wep.
But works with either wep or wpasupplicant

Posted by atoz on Jan. 02 2007,04:18

Sorry to bother with this issue again. I redownloaded the drivers from the ndiswrappper list and ran the commands once again. However things still are not working. Reviewing dmesg I discovered this.

ndiswrapper version 1.14 loaded (preemt=no,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver net8180 Realtek,11/10/2003,5.163.1030.2003) loaded
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:00.0 to 64
_ _alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x21/0)
ndiswrapper (NdisAllocateSharedMemory:926): couldn't allocate 2042 bytes of cached DMA memory
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:246): log: C000139, count: 1, return_address: c38f9a2e
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:249): code: 1026
ndiswrapper (miniport_init:273 ): couldn't initialize device: C000009A
ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:497): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)

Does this mean my card just won't work on my system. I am running an IBM Thinkpad 770. 42 megs of RAM I believe. Any information is helpful, thanks in advance.

Posted by roberts on Jan. 02 2007,04:44

I don't know what the low end memory machine will support ndiswrapper.
I do know that ndiswrapper requires a fair amount of ram.
Perhaps you will need to boot lowram, or stop torsmo, use jwm., drop the wallpaper, etc.

Posted by atoz on Jan. 02 2007,14:51

Would creating a larger /swap partition help as well?