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Topic: Wireless how to, How I got my Linksys WRT54G working

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john712

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Posted: Sep. 03 2007,13:52

These are the steps I took to get my linksys wireless WPC54GS notebook card working:

This worked in DSL 3.2 and 4.0 (hard drive install) on a Toshiba Satellite 1695CDT notebook

1. Copy the windows drivers lsmvnds.inf and mrv8335xp.sys to the /dsl/home directory

2. Open terminal and sudo to superuser then run the following code

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ndiswrapper -i lsmvnds.inf

3. Keep terminal open and run

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modprobe -r ndiswrapper

4. Keep terminal open and run

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modprobe ndiswrapper

5. Close terminal and from the DSL menu open System, Net Setup and ndiswrapper

6. Once the ndiswrapper setup window opens enter the following

Inf: /etc/ndiswrapper/lsmvnds/lsmvnds.inf
Device: wlan0
Sid: The name of your wireless router
Wep: The password for your wireless router if you gave it one

7. Click OK and give it a few seconds for the wireless card to initialize

To make life easier you could add two lines modprobe -r ndiswrapper and modprobe ndiswrapper to bootlocal.sh

I also modified /usr/local/bin/ndissetup to include the info in ndiswrapper setup window

This way each time I boot my DSL box I only have to open the ndiswrapper set window and click OK to initialize the wireless notebook card.

Life is good, but it's so much better with DSL

cflorea

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Posted: Sep. 12 2007,01:56

hi!

i am a newbie. has anyone figured out how to make WG311v3 wireless card to work with DSL?

(I am running DSL through a Frugal Install on a CF card; 500 MHz processor, 256MB RAM)

thank you.

-Cat

cflorea

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Posted: Sep. 18 2007,00:16

Ok, so I got some ideas about installing the WG311v3 card on my machine. I plan to try the different drivers provided on Windows CD until maybe I find one that works with the "ndiswrapper".

The trouble is when I try to uninstall the currently installed driver (which did not work)... it does not seem I can actually remove it!

Essentially, I run:

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sudo ndiswrapper -l

and I get:
"Installed drivers:
wg311v3 invalid driver!"

Then I run:

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sudo ndiswrapper -e wg311v3
sudo ndiswrapper -l

and I get
"No drivers installed".

It all seems okay but after I reboot, the command "sudo ndiswrapper -l" still gives me
"Installed drivers:
wg311v3 invalid driver!".

What is going in? Did I get rid of the current version of the driver or not? What reinstalls it?

Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you!

-Catalin

cflorea

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Posted: Sep. 18 2007,01:25

okay, i went ahead and tried anyway to install a different driver.
my command:
"sudo ndiswrapper -i /home/dsl/temp/wg311v3.inf"
resulted in:
"Installing wg311v3
couldn't copy /home/dsl/temp/wg311v3.inf at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 139".

what does that mean??

are the rights messed up in the "temp" folder where i put the card driver files?

-Cat

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