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Wireless not working

Hi All,

I am running FC 10 on my Dell inspiron 1525 laptop. I just switched from FC 9 to 10.
When I was using FC 9 at the point of time wireless was not working but I installed ndiswrapper and dell wireless XP driver and it started working.
But on FC 10 I am not getting it right.

I followed the steps on this page:
http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna

Everything goes fine but at the end when I say;
$modprobe ndiswrapper

I get module not found error.

So I tried installing ndiswrapper manually. I downloaded the tar ball form here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=602481

after untar, following the instructions given in the INSTALL file, I did this:

$make install

In the beginning it gives the following warning:
----------
*** WARNING: This kernel uses 4K stack size option
(CONFIG_4KSTACKS); many Windows drivers will not work
with this option enabled. Disable CONFIG_4KSTACKS
in kernel's .config file, recompile and install kernel
-----------

It goes and then it gives compilation error and quits.

What could be wrong and what should I do to get wireless working on my laptop.?
Thanks a lot

I think it's not as bas as it may look. Try reinstalling ndiswrapper through yum (possibly fixing any breakage caused by the different installation attempts) and then (on the CLI) try

Code:

# modprobe -i ndiswrapper

# modprobe -l | grep ndiswrapper

If it still doesn't show up, it's really not there, and you're back at square one.

Installing a module doesn't automatically mean it's inserted into the kernel, especially in the case of ndiswrapper which isn't working by itself but needs to be configured first. If you didn't do that before, look at man ndiswrapper for that.

Also, you'll have to compile and install from a root CLI:

Code:

# make

# make install

# modprobe -i ndiswrapper

# modprobe -l | grep ndiswrapper

Again, the module'll need to be inserted first in order to show up.

M.

what wireless card is in your lappy? Dell uses a lot of broadcom chips in their laptops and most are supported without using ndiswrapper. lspci and post the results back.