schwizz
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Posted: Dec. 07 2004,09:23 |
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This is actually a rather involved process, but the instructions are all in /home/dsl/ndiswrapper.readme - just navigate to that using Emelfm and read the instructions - follow them line by line.
I will add a couple of my own notes, though, from my experience a couple of days ago (I'm also new to DSL and Linux in general)
Before you even start the .readme checklist, click the XTerm icon and type in "sudo su" (without quotes) - this makes you root in the terminal.
Step one in the .readme sounds simple enough - but it proved to be quite a problem for me. Essentially, I had to do a bunch of google searches for my wireless card (Belkin G pcmcia) and find the WINDOWS XP driver (you have to have the XP Driver, I guess). You may be able to find the .INF file for your card on your CD that came with it, but I didn't have that much luck. I first had to find out what the chipset on the card was, and armed with that name, I searched for .INF files for it. Finally, I found the proper .INF file onndiswrapper.sourceforge.net 
Once you have the file, of course you need to make it available to use, so depending on where you save it, you may have to mount the appropriate drive. That cool little window in the bottom right of the desktop will allow you to do it. For example, click the arrows until it says "floppy" and then click the box to the left of the arrows - it turns green and then you can get to it through /mnt/floppy
From there, the .readme is pretty good - like I said, just follow it. One interesting thing I found was when I used the "ndiswrapper -l" command, I got this message:
Installed ndis drivers:
rt2500 hardware present, fuzzy
... Not sure what "fuzzy" means, but it worked.
Anyway, follow all the way down until you get to "ifconfig wlan0 up" once you hit enter you should see the card light up and you should be good to go -- however, I have had a problem with it still not working, so when I can't pull up the 'net (with the card's lights on), I go to DSL Panel, click NetcardConfig, and hit YES for DHCP Broadcast. That seems to do some sort of "reboot" for the card and that has worked for me.
Finally, I have (sadly) discovered that these settings only last until the computer gets shut down - then it forgets everything except the ndiswrapper you installed. Honestly, I don't yet know how to get it to remember (I think it's somewhere in Backup/Restore) the settings - so I'm off to the rest of the forum for that answer...
Good luck!
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