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Posted: Nov. 29 2006,21:51 QUOTE
I'm using ndiswrapper with my Linksys WPC54G wifi card. Works great, in fact, DSL is the only distro I can get the damn thing to work on. I'm wondering if there is a way to save the ndiswrapper settings so I don't need to go to the setup window and enter the path to the driver every time. It would be nice to have something equivalent to a Windows .bat file where I could quickly execute the command when I want to enable my wifi. Note: I switch out my wifi card with a wired NIC frequently- wired at work, wifi at home.
I'm open to any ideas. Thanks much.
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Posted: Nov. 29 2006,22:20 QUOTE
If you use the ndiswrapper GUI then look in /opt
The GUI program creates a script /opt/myndis.sh
You can use that script to enable your wireless.
Just make sure the drive is mounted that has the windows driver.
Run the script as root.  

sudo /opt/myndis.sh

In fact, I usually use the icontool to make a desktop icon to start my wireless on-demand.
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Posted: Nov. 29 2006,22:42 QUOTE
Awesome. I saw that file at one point and wondered where it came into play. I'm sure that will work.
Follow up issue:
Since I installed the myDSL extension to switch GTK themes, my icons are gone. They are enabled in the icon tool. They briefly appear if I do something like change (or remove) the wallpaper image. Any idea how to get them back?
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Posted: Nov. 30 2006,17:12 QUOTE
Don't know about which extension you may have loaded, but for your icons...

Likely situation is that you have a .lnk file pointing to a non-exsistant icon. Look in /home/dsl/.xtdesktop There you will find .lnk and icon type files .gif .png etc  You can have extra icon files, but all .lnk files must point to a valid icon file.  You could copy over the original set of icons from /etc/skel/.xtdesktop but that would not cover any extra items you may have created or deleted. One quick way to check for a missing icon would be to type the following

grep Icon .xtdesktop/*.lnk | cut -f3 -d":" | xargs ls | grep "No"
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Posted: Dec. 07 2006,06:21 QUOTE
Hi, I am glad someone knows how to use NdisWrapper I have a compaq presario v5000 laptop and the bcmwl5.sys and inf files I try to stick the inf file in the GUI and it doen't work... what are the other boxes for? Also more documentation in dsl for that would be helpfull maby when you start the program. My window$ machine auto connects to the wireless lan so theirs no passwords.
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