ndiswrapper and the rtl8180 chipset

Forum: Networking
Topic: ndiswrapper and the rtl8180 chipset
started by: pepsi

Posted by pepsi on Oct. 02 2004,16:14

Howdy. I always wondered if ndiswrapper would be added to DSL. Anywho, I have the rtl8180 chipset in my wifi card. here's what happened:

# ndiswrapper -i /mnt/hda3/etc/rtl8180/netr8180.inf
(it then says it the driver was loaded sucessfully)
# ndiswrapper -l
(device present is displayed)
# modprobe ndiswrapper
(says it was loaded and lsmod shows it loaded)

At this point, the card comes alive but every 5 seconds, the Link LED will flash about 10 times and during these flashes, the system will not respond to keyboard input.

I did use the network card config tool and I selected "DHCP broadast" but it says it failed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 02 2004,16:42

Maybe there is already a Linux driver loaded that is trying to talk to your card and it is conflicting with your ndiswrapper driver.

Try booting with "dsl failsafe", or better yet try and do an "sudo rmmod modulename" on any network module that is loaded. You can see your modules by typing "sudo lsmod | more"

Posted by roberts on Oct. 02 2004,21:47

From your post you stopped at modprobe.
There are other wlan commands other than netcardconfig would provide.

May I suggest to try the GUI for ndiswrapper

From main menu System->Net Setup->ndsiwrapper

Posted by pepsi on Oct. 03 2004,15:03

No words can explain how happy I am. I rtf wiki at ndiswrapper.sf.net and I found an example startup script there that worked. (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/StartupScripts).

Thanks guys,
Zach

Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 03 2004,21:08

Thank you for posting the link to the startup scripts that worked for you:

< http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/StartupScripts >

It's very helpful to provide this information for other people to use.

Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 04 2004,16:07

Quote (pepsi @ Oct. 03 2004,11:03)

OMFG....you actually read the manual and stf...

Your on your way to the top bud!!! hehe

Great job by the way and thanks for linking to the startup script!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by writeson on Oct. 05 2004,17:20

All,

I'm totally lovin 0.8.2 because of the ndiswrapper stuff! I've got the linksys wpc11 v4 card in my Compaq Pressario working and connecting to my home wireless router. It's great. And with the link about how to modify the startup script, sweet!

Thanks for all your work, someday I'd like to be sharp enough to contribute something! If you have any python questions...

Doug

Posted by dvdljns on Feb. 25 2006,08:04

Does anybody have that script I followed the link and it is not there anymore.