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Posted: Sep. 22 2007,11:28 QUOTE
Hi
I bought a wireless PCI  card from the dsl wiki ( a Linksys Wireless A+G 5211 card).
I've popped it in and tried to run NDISWRAPPER and pointed it to the driver 5211.inf but it's saying 'No Connection'.  Should one try NDISWRAPPER first to get wireless going or do you suggest something else?

I know wireless can take ages fiddling around....anyone got any simple instructions they could point me to please? It's just a case of pointing NDISWRAPPER to the .inf file isn't it ? All the .sys files are there and the .inf file. Perhaps it won't work!?
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Posted: Sep. 22 2007,12:09 QUOTE
I didn't read the wireless section in the wiki, but I would've thought it'd point you in the direction of a card with native linux support?

Before trying ndiswrapper, it might be an idea to check if there is a driver for your card in dsl. If you decide to go with ndiswrapper, it would be a good idea to check the sourceforge site to see which drivers are recommended - in any case, with ndiswrapper you will need both the *.inf and *.sys files
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Posted: Sep. 22 2007,12:47 QUOTE
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Linksys Wireless A+G 5211 card


I couldn't see that particular card there.

Ideally you want one under the "works out the box" category.

There's absolutely no guarantees that ndiswrapper will work with some random Windows wireless driver.  Even when it is supposed to work according to the list on the ndiswrapper website, you have to have the right version of the windows driver.  I never got ndiswrapper working for Intel 2200BG after trying multiple versions of the windows driver and multiple versions of ndiswrapper, including those it was supposed to work with according to various reports on the web.
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Posted: Sep. 22 2007,20:24 QUOTE
Ok Sorry for the mistake everyone . I've opened my PC and taken the card out.
I do own a Linksys WMP55AG version 1.2 which should work out of the box. This is a dumb ass question but how do you get it to work out of the box? :) Which app do you run ? If you can point me to some instructions it will save you all explaining.

Sorry I confused you..
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Posted: Sep. 23 2007,09:43 QUOTE
Maybe the first thing to do would be to use "lspci", "lsusb" or whatever to see which chipset your card has - once you know that, you can start chasing a driver.
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