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Topic: Rt2500 wireless PCMCIA using ndiswrapper

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chrisH

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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,16:37

Hello All.

I'm trying to get my edimax EW7108PCg card running under DSL using ndiswrapper. It's an RT2500 chipset, i beleive.

Card is verified on the ndiswrapper site, which tells me to use the win2k driver.

so I've copied the driver to /opt/edimax/Rt2500.INF

I run ndiswrapper from the GUI, tell it the location of my driver etc, and it says:

CONNECTION FAILED

the PCMCIA tool recognises the card correctly. cardmgr seems ok on boot. running ndiswrapper -l tells me that the driver is installed but hardware not present.

I'm at a bit of a loss here. ANy suggestions?

Cheers,

Chris

roberts

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Posted: Mar. 25 2006,22:15

Usaully you have a .sys file too. It should be copied into the same location as the .inf file. Check that both are there and which case, i.e., lowercase, upper, or mixed.

Then as root:
# ndiswrapper -i /opt/edimax/rt2500.inf

# modprobe ndiswrapper

Then to see if you have an unconfigured device use

# iwconfig

If you see a new device there, eth0, wlan0, or ...
Then you should be good to configure your card.
Use ndiswrapper GUI or manually with iwconfig commands.

cloakable

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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,13:24

I'm getting the same problems. I know how to use ndiswrapper - I've used it many times, but ndiswrapper -l outputs
rt2500 hardware present, fuzzy

What does this mean, besides the fact that ifconfig -a fails to detect it, so I cannot configure it?

vimusa

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Posted: April 05 2006,14:05

Quote (chrisH @ Mar. 25 2006,11:37)

Hi, I also have Edimax card that Ralink declares uses RT2500 chipset but when you check the PCI ID (lspci and lspci -n) it is a RT2561.

So, try using WinXP RT61 drivers.

Good luck

ts2000

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Posted: April 05 2006,23:15

I also get the 'present, fuzzy' phrase when ndiswrapper -l.

I haven't a clue. When iwconfig there is no wlan0 - I am stuck with this problem and have not been able to get DSL onto the network.

I am also interested in this thread.

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