wireless and ndiswrapper or driverloader

Forum: Networking
Topic: wireless and ndiswrapper or driverloader
started by: writeson

Posted by writeson on Sep. 16 2004,16:32

Hi all,

I've been using Linux for awhile, but I'm far from a guru. I just started using DSL 0.8.1.1 on a Compaq Pressario 1800 that has a Linksys WPC11 V4 wireless pcimia card in it. DSL doesn't recognize the card and I'd like to get it working. I wonder if anyone can point me at some kind of HOWTO for either:

the ndiswrapper

or

driverload from www.linuxant.com

I've tried the later without success, but then as I mentioned, I'm not a guru.

Thanks in advance,
Doug

Posted by AwPhuch on Sep. 16 2004,17:01

No offence dude bud do you even look at the treads in the forum?!?!

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=2592 >

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by writeson on Sep. 17 2004,13:08

Brian,

Not to be rude, but bite me.

Sincerely,
Doug

Posted by AwPhuch on Sep. 17 2004,15:20

Quote (writeson @ Sep. 17 2004,09:08)

Brian,

Not to be rude, but bite me.

Sincerely,
Doug

Sorry didnt mean to offend

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by docdtv on Oct. 16 2004,04:22

It's back to Linux for me, after a long hiatus.

For those who need briefing on NDIS Wrapper, as I did, see:
< http://www.technetra.com/Writings/recent/ndis_wrapper_wifi_html/view >

"Got a wireless network card that you want to use with Linux but its device driver is not available? NDIS Wrapper may be just what you need... NDIS Wrapper allows the Linux kernel to interact with a network device using the Microsoft NDIS driver for that device. NDIS Wrapper translates calls to the Windows NT kernel and hardware abstraction layer into native Linux calls. The project was started in November 2003..."

Does anyone have any tips about using ndiswrapper? The topic "WORKING NDISWRAPPER!!!!, I have it up and running! Get it now!" did not give too many details. I can't boot DSL at the moment... Is this utility bundled with DSL, or does one need to get a copy to insmod or something?

Thanks.

Posted by roberts on Oct. 16 2004,06:03

ndiswrapper is bundled with DSL starting with version 0.8.2
If you have the windows inf file then you might try the simple GUI from the main menu->System->Net Setup->ndiswrapper.
If this fails, then you might have to find an inf file that will work with ndiswrapper.

Posted by eyeliner on Oct. 21 2004,22:58

I find ndiswrapper "weird"

Sometimes my card gives that bright green led,
and I've been able to see my network, yet I wasn't able
to configure it properly.
While sometimes it just sits there turned on, but not usable
(wlan0 doesn't exist).
ndiswrapper is great, but i'm still having a hard time with my card.

Posted by ico2 on Oct. 22 2004,17:41

ico2 wants ndiswrapper but has 0.8.0
aaaaaaaaaahhhh well, will have to get it from packages.debian.org.
i don't even have the wavelan card yet, but when i do, i don't want to be limited to using the very few that have linux drivers supplied.