I'm trying to get my new HP NC6000 wireless to work - I can't seem to get the built-in wireless drivers installed correctly. I've tried madwifi and ipw2100 to no avail...

I'm on to ndiswrapper now, and now this is bitching at me about the Atheros driver off of my winxp drive. It's a ".sys" file, which ndiswrapper doesn't seem to know anything about - It whines about needing an ".inf" file.

Ndiswrapper was my last home for wireless on this thing... can someone help?

Thangew.

By the way, I'm using KDE with Slackware 10.2 current.

Could you be a bit more specific as to the exact details of the Atheros card that you are using?

This site here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List

gives a pretty comprehensive list of supported cards under ndiswrapper.

And another small word of advice: be patient !

Trust me, getting wireless to working under linux could be a challenge at times, and you must be willing to put in some time and effort to get it working. I used ndiswrapper to get my broadcomm working, but it was only after days of waiting till someone would post results on the forum.

So as of now, the best thing that other people on the forum could look forward to is more details on your card.

Regards

Hari

Sorry... I was a bit pressed for time. lspci gives me:

02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)

I've got xp on another hard drive, and looked up the driver that it uses (c:\windows\system32\drivers\w70n51.sys). I'm not sure what a ".sys" file is, but ndiswrapper apparently isn't sure either - since it said ".sys" was an unrecognized driver format - or words to that effect. I copied that file to my house's server and then re-booted Slackware, copied it back onto Slack, then tried to compile ndiswrapper. After having to recompile my kernel (2.6.8.1) to get rid of the 4k stack support (ndiswrapper said windows drivers can't use 4k stacks), I re-compiled ndiswrapper. All went well this time - except when I typed:

ndiswrapper -i w70n51.sys
Installing w70n51.sys

Then, I type:

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
w70n51.sys invalid driver!

Drat!

Hello

You have an Atheros card, right?

The MadWifi project should get it to work.

Here is a link, though it has no explanation really, it still could be helpful:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reynolds/nc6000-linux.html

I am not sure why you get the Intel Corp message though.

The MadWifi home page says the following:
"you will need a little knowledge about getting source via CVS, compiling kernel and drivers, and similar stuff". Are you sure you followed every step outlined in the madwifi project?

Frankly, I dont think ndiswrapper will work. You should be having better luck with MadWifi, given that it supports a huge list of Atheros cards.

The detailed instructions for the Madwifi installation is given here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.p...ME?view=markup

Good luck.

(In case you have tried MadWifi before, probably you can post in what happened, what kernel messages you got and stuff like that. I am sure somebody here will be using MadWifi and must be able to help you out. )

Regards
Hari

I'm trying madwifi again... I even found a page that concerns my distro: Slackware.

http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/dokuw...47051d00c6451e

The madwifi installation seems to have gone fine... I followed the directions to a "T", but yet when I get to the part that talks about editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf file, he talks about getting the essid for the built-in wireless by entering "ifconfig ath0".

"Ifconfig ath0" tells me that I have no "ath0".

The directions specifically state:

"After the module is loaded and your ath0 interface is available, run "ifconfig ath0" and get the MAC address of ath0."

... if it were only that easy...

I typed "modprobe ath_pci" to supposedly load the module... Is that correct? It did not return an error when I hit the enter key... but yet nothing seems to have been added.

I've dealt with wireless before, on a Compaq M700 that took me a few weeks to get working... I get frustrated, is all.

That's your onboard Centrino wifi, right? I don't think madwifi would have anything to do with it; ipw2100 is the correct driver. How did you try to set that up and how did it fail? It works for me, compiled from the latest source from the ipw2100 website. Don't forget you now need to install the ieee82011 first. And you have to patch ipw2100 or it won't compile with the latest ieee80211; the patch is available from the ipw2100 site. It will be device eth0 or eth1 depending on whether the driver for your wired LAN adaptor is loaded before ipw2100.

I also tried ndiswrapper, because I can't get ipw2100 to work with wpa_supplicant - WPA doesn't work with it with ndiswrapper either, but it did work for me with a different card; but that's another story. You need to install w70n51.inf, not .sys. The .sys file will automatically be copied across anyway. ndiswrapper uses the device name wlan0. BTW, I still kept getting "No such device" errors unless I loaded and then killed the ipw2100 module first!