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Posted: April 26 2006,16:45 QUOTE
Hi,

I'm trying to install my Wlan card in DSL - I've got a PII 333 mhz with a pcmcia wlan card.

i can install the drivers for my card
then modprobe ndiswrapper

with no errors

i check dmesg
and I have the following error message:

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ndiswrapper version 0.10 loaded (preempt=no, smp=yes)
ndiswrapper (NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:997): Failed to allocate DMA coherent memory. Windows driver requested 2042 bytes of cached memory

ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:196)
ndiswrapper (ndis_init_one_pci:1458): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device
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Having a look at this seems like the memory cannot be allocated.

I have 64mb of ram with 17.3 used.

Does anyone have any ideas on what to do ?
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Posted: April 26 2006,17:26 QUOTE
And what card would that be?

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Posted: April 26 2006,18:59 QUOTE
Also, what version of DSL?

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Posted: April 27 2006,01:01 QUOTE
Ok It's a Protac WLB-1100 IEEE802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN
and the version of DSL is 2.3

The file i use for ndiswrapper is Netr8180.inf and rtl8180.sys
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Posted: April 27 2006,12:54 QUOTE
Can you download and try DSL 2.4RC2? It has a newer Ndiswrapper that may help, although your card seems like it should work with the old one.
Here is a How To by someone who got it to work in another distro that may help you:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux....i_HOWTO

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