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D3ciph3r 01-14-2006 03:42 PM
Wireless on Slackware
 
I'm running slackware linux 10.2, and I need to get a linksys card running wireless. I also need d-link, but that's later. Right now I'm focusing on my linksys.

Anyway, I got ndiswrapper. I install the .inf file (for some reason it was Rt2500.INF) and then did a "ndiswrapper -m" to add it to the modprobe.

My problem is, I still can't get online. Ndiswrapper says the driver and hardware are present. I tried multiple things, like

Code:
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0
etc, etc. If anyone could help me, that'd be great. Oh, and by the way, my card is a Linksys Wireless-G WMP54G Wireless Adapter. Thanks.

XavierP 01-14-2006 04:12 PM
Quote:
Load module:

You will use ndiswrapper once more:

Code:
ndiswrapper -m
You should then see a message along the lines of: Adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf
Before you load the module DO NOT FORGET to type

Code:
depmod -a
 (my emphasis)

If there is no error (warnings may be OK), continue. To load the module type

Code:
modprobe ndiswrapper
If you get no error the driver should now be loaded. You can verify this by checking system log produced by dmesg. If the driver is loaded successfully, you should see a message in the system log

Code:
ndiswrapper version <version> loaded
Make sure the version <version> here matches the version of ndiswrapper package that you downloaded and installed. If you get a different version, you have old version of package, which you should Uninstall and go back to step 1.

If after modprob'ing, system is locked up no response to keyboard etc., it indicates that kernel has crashed. See Distributions and FAQ for hints on what may cause problems for your distribution/kernel.
If you have successfully installed windows drivers earlier with ndiswrapper -i INFfile, the ndiswrapper module will load them all. You should then see the following messages in system log

Code:
ndiswrapper: driver ''driver1'' added
for each of the drivers. If you don't see these messages, it usually means that there are no usable drivers installed in /etc/ndiswrapper directory. Check if the /etc/ndiswrapper directory has one sub-directory for each driver and if in each driver's directory there are inf, sys and conf files. Otherwise, you may need to repeat step 2.

If this does not bring up the lights on the card, try ejecting it and re-inserting it.

If the system has a card that works with one of the loaded drivers, you should see the following message in the system log

Code:
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Got this from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...n#Installation

Because I think you may have skipped a few steps. You should read the install page and make sure you have followed all the instructions - I never go wrong when I do the installation.


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