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Topic: Help Getting WPC54G V2 to work, Wireless Network Card on old laptop

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sonomasp

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Posted: Dec. 06 2006,11:58

The Computer is an old Gateway Solo 9100 with a 200 mhz processor with 96 meg Ram. I have DSL version 3.01 I'm pretty sure installed on HD. I tried ndiswrapper with several drivers. So now when I type "ndiswrapper -l" I get
Installed Drivers:
bcmw15 invalid driver!
bcmw15.sys invalid driver!
lsbcmds invalid driver!
netcard invalid driver!

No lights on the card, and iwconfig or wlanconfig say no card detected.

So the only thing I can think of is that this machine might be old enough that newer pcmcia cards don't run on it. The manual says that it should be able to run 16 & 32 bit cards, but also mentions that there are not many 32 bit cards out yet. So they were just coming on when this machine was produced.

Any ideas, directions I can take??
BTW: This machine was given to me. So I'd like to get it running with what I have.

Thanks

Howard

roberts

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Posted: Dec. 06 2006,14:41

Might try the boot time option

pci=assign-busses

Also you might also want to try

modprobe ndiswrapper preempt=no

sonomasp

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Posted: Dec. 06 2006,22:13

I put in the boot option by hitting "e", the edited the grub boot line adding pci=assign-busses. Then booted. Opened a terminal and typed in modprobe ndiswrapper preempt=no didn't do anything. I just get another bash line.
If I type lspci at the very bottom I do see
0000:05:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface. So at some level the OS sees my card.
But if I use the Tools in Control Panel for Netcardconfig, Wlanconfig, Iwconfig I get No supported card or No wireless card found.

So how do I get the tools to see the card. Also I ndiswrapper -v gives me utils version 1.8 I don't get that, because at sourceforge site the current stable release of ndiswrapper is 1.31 released this December 5. So how can the installed show a more updated version??
BTW: I downloaded the ndiswrapper 1.31.tar.gz. and will try to upgrade this package and see if that works. The directions on sourceforge say to link to the source at /lib/modules ... I don't see modules. So does DSL come with the kernel source?? Or do I now have to go through the process of installing kernel sourece??

roberts

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Posted: Dec. 06 2006,23:09

See number #20 on the Ndiswrapper List

sonomasp

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Posted: Dec. 07 2006,20:11

If you are referring to the driver with lstinds.inf, yeah I tried #20 too. I think I mistyped the install the firts time, that is why it didn't show up in dmesg. So every inf file I've tried has given me invalid driver upon dmesg.
Does anyone know what version on ndiswrapper DSL 3.1 has. When I type ndiswrapper -v if I remember correctly I get 1.8. Don't understand how that can be since version 1.31 was only released a few days ago on 12/05/06.

So maybe upgrade ndiswrapper or the kernel?? According to the directions to upgrade ndis, I need to have kernel source link to /lib/modules. If anyone could help with some general guidelines that I could follow.

Thanks

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