Wireless PCI Adapters

PatrickNew · 09-02-2008, 04:57 PM

Hrm, Okay this is getting distro-specific, and I've never used Slackware. Can any of you Slackware users help him get an ndiswrapper module?

thinice15 · 09-03-2008, 02:35 PM

i dont know how i did it but i got the "ndiswrapper -v" to work i get this

Code:

utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '1.9'
module details:
filename:        /lib/modules/2.6.24.5/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
version:         1.53
vermagic:        2.6.24.5 mod_unload 686

but when i type "modprobe ndiswrapper" i get this

Code:

FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.24.5/misc/ndiswrapper.ko):
invalid module format

how can i fix this?

PatrickNew · 09-03-2008, 05:52 PM

Where did you get the module from? Did you build it yourself or get it from a package?

thinice15 · 09-03-2008, 06:04 PM

to be honest i just got really frustrated and started messing with my kernel in "/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.5" i just use "make menuconfig" and messed with stuff and typed "make modules" and "make modules_install" but the bad thing is after i did that i reinstalled ndiswrapper-1.53 and it worked but when i rebooted and logged back in i type "lsmod" to see what modules are running and none are so i dont know what i did wrong.

PatrickNew · 09-03-2008, 07:26 PM

Yikes. If your kernel is half distro-provided and half compiled from source, you could have bigger troubles than this. Are you sure the source in /usr/src is the same as the one that the kernel was compiled from? I'd get back to distro packages as fast as possible.

thinice15 · 09-03-2008, 10:53 PM

ok i will try to figure something i really appreciate the help man if i have figure something out i will post a reply.

thinice15 · 09-09-2008, 12:51 AM

ok i just reinstall slackware 12.0 and i got the ndiswrapper package it installed right and the module loads but now i need help with setting up wlan0 does anybody know how to do that?

forum1793 · 09-12-2008, 10:11 PM

Are you using wpa_supplicant? If so read up on wpa_supplicant, wext, ndiswrapper, and make changes to rc.inet1.conf (located at /etc/rc.d) accordingly.

If you're not using that I'm not sure how you bring up wlan. Maybe try bringing it up as root with:

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan

If that doesn't show wireless routers, search on how to load ndiswrapper driver in ifconfig and/or iwconfig. They might use wext also. I'm not sure.

thinice15 · 09-13-2008, 09:51 PM

i got if fixed thanks guys.

Quakeboy02 · 09-13-2008, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thinice15

i got if fixed thanks guys.

It would be good if you would tell everyone what you actually did to fix it.

thinice15 · 09-14-2008, 04:39 AM

well i had to use this command to get it working "wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant -dd" then i opened another tty and then i checked if wlan0 has the default gateway by using the "route" command usually eth0 has the default gateway if you have a ethernet port so if you have eth0 up type "ifconfig eth0 down" it has to be down for wlan0 but if you dont have eth0 up there will be no default gateway so i used the command "route add default gw YOUR-GATEWAY-HERE wlan0" to make wlan0 the default gateway.then i used "nslookup" and "ping" to test it and it works.