ndiswrapper question
 

Hello everyone
Ive just bought this new labtop its a 64 bit HP Pavilion zv6000 series with broadcom wireless card, i installed ndiswrapper so when i give a

#ndiswrapper -l
I get a hardware present , driver present message
but when i give a
#ifup eth0
it says the configuration file is not there...
anybody can help me with that
thanks
Karan

Humm....
 

I'm still a linux noob myslef, but I just got my broadcom wireless (bcmwl5) driver working via ndiswrapper and I never had to use "ifup eth0". What are you wanting to do?

yeah question is in network configuration window when i choose to activate my wlan0 it says "ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."
however when i type:
ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
netbc564 driver present, hardware present
[root@localhost etc]#
so whats the problem here...
thanx

Okay, sounds to me like maybe you need to modprobe ndiswrapper. If the driver is present and the hardware is present, you have the right driver. I would go to this page http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation and start where it says "Load Module" about halfway down. Finish out those steps to make sure your ndiswrapper driver is present in the kernel. If you've already done that, then maybe it sounds like your wireless card is not coming up on boot. What distro are you using?

Oooops, Fedora Core 4 got it, lol. I've read some other posts and it seems that your error is associated with driver issues. I would try the modprode ndiswrapper route first. Hopefully that will help.

well I've gone through that page 3 times i get no errors for modprobe ndiswrapper but still doesn't work

Hummm, I guess I'll try to check around some more...I'm not sure why it wouldn't bring up your hardware. Doesn't sound like an ndiswrapper issue anyways.

If you got no errors for the modprobe, ndiswrapper should be set to go and isn't the issue. So it just sounds like it's not seeing your hardware or it's just not started. I know when I set up my internet, I had to tell the LAN ethernet card to only boot if I plug the cord in and then reinstall my wireless internet connection and tell it to boot on system startup. Then I simply rebooted and watched in verbose mode to see if ndiswrapper and the WLAN0 both come up. That's the only way I could get my wireless to work. Otherwise it looks to the LAN first and wouldn't boot my WAN card. Some other posts have said something about PCMCIA issues, but I dunno. Sorry I'm not much help!


WAIT! I did think of something else. Does your laptop have the keyboard where you can press the "Fn" key with "F2" to bring up your wireless card??? Most of them do, maybe that will bring up your wireless card. See if that helps.

thanx buddy for the help well somehow its working now however I can't surf the net now maybe its the encryption...
my accesspoint sends an encripted signal should type
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted XXXXXXXX
or
iwconfig wlan0 key open XXXXXXXX
and the 2nd question is cuz im running fedora 4 how can i set up the network parameters cuz the last step says that based on which dist. we use we should set the paratmeters for wlan0 up.
and the last thing is if ur running fedora can u paste me ur modprobe.conf please
thanks verymuch
karan

oh it works now i was making a mistake in entering the encription key....for hex i should've put 0x in the begining which i was missing everythime...thanks very much buddy

Glad to hear you got it working!