linksys WPC54G

Forum: Networking
Topic: linksys WPC54G
started by: kryptus3

Posted by kryptus3 on Jan. 12 2005,01:50

I know you've probably never heard this before... but the WPC54g is difficult to get working in linux. I have run NdisWrapper with the .inf from the linksys cd. "ndisrapper -l" reads "lsbcmnds hardware present"... a good sign... "modprobe ndiswrapper"... no visable errors... "iwconfig" outputs "lo no wireless extensions"... not so good, and now i'm stuck. Any help on the topic is appreciated.

-Kryptus3

PS: Running DSLinux .9

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 12 2005,04:29

Maybe this helps. I don't own the card so I cannot test myself:

< http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/41/2004/06/4/195006 >

Posted by kryptus3 on Jan. 12 2005,04:57

i tried what the site said, but dmesg prints "

ndiswrapper version .10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
PCI: Setting Latency timer of device 02:00.0 to 64
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gpf=0x21/0)
ndiswrapper )NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:997): Failed to allocate DMA coherent memory. Windows driver requested 4096 bytes of cached memory

ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:196): log C0001389, length: 1 (0000000c)

ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1458): Windows driver couldn't initilize the device
'

Thanks for the post. It's a start, still stuck though...

Posted by joedornan on June 14 2005,20:00

Hello,

Just following up on this old thread. I have the same problem getting wpc54g v2 to work. No love so far.

Using ndiswrapper to load the original inf driver file from Linksys

ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf

must work because when I do this:

ndiswrapper -l

it reports that the driver was loaded and the hardware is present.

but wlcardconfig doesn't see any hardware. nor does iwlist.

and the gui iwconfig allows me to enter details, but when the window disappears, there are no apparent changes to my connectivity.

I've also found these links which are relevant but didn't help:

< http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5645 >
< http://ch.twi.tudelft.nl/~arthur/wpc54g/ >
< http://www.wasab.dk/morten....t-linux >
< http://www.linuxquestions.org/questio....tid=286 >
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=wpc54g >
< http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/41/2004/06/4/195006 >

And if you get farther than I, you may want to use WPA:
< http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2004-December/008891.html >

But if you got farther than I did... please share!

-Joe

Posted by joedornan on June 14 2005,20:31

I spent a day or two researching this. Naturally a few minutes after I broke down and asked for help I figured it out. Nice way to introduce yourself to the group!

Anyway, the answer is: if you are copying the necessary files from the CD to your hard drive, make sure not only to copy your lsbcmnds.inf file but ALSO your bcmwl5.sys file. When both are together, then run ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf and it will work.

Cheers,
-Joe

Posted by Psyburn on June 23 2005,09:24

I have a WPC54g v2 and am getting closer to getting it to work.

I use a PNY Attache 2.0 USB drive to hold my work
It mounts as /mnt/sda1

I use console method to install my inf stored on the PNY

Code Sample

sudo ndiswrapper -i /mnt/sda1/wpc54g/lstinds.inf

This installs and powers up the WPC54g v2

Code Sample

sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Now my ifconfig and iwconfig have a little interface called wlan0

Here's where it all goes down the tube.

when I run the iwconfig to connect to the AP

Code Sample

sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel 9 essid ACTIONTEC mode Managed

lo, and behold, my kernel crashes a few seconds later

Please help