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Help On Ndiswrapper

Hi all,
I'm trying to configure ndiswrapper on my acer aspire laptop under new fedora 11 release.
everything seems to be ok but no wireless device is detected by network manager.
Here the output of:

lsmod

ifconfig

iwconfig

Quote:

# lsmod|grep ndis
ndiswrapper 155468 0

Quote:

# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E4:5E:43:1A
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xa800

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:86:30:DF:FA
inet6 addr: fe80::200:86ff:fe30:dffa/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:10
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2178 (2.1 KiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:65 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:65 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5058 (4.9 KiB) TX bytes:5058 (4.9 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:9B:55:42:5A
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:21 Memory:c0005000-c0005800

Quote:

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Thanks in advance for any help
Mawerick

Have you tried issuing

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 up

And you loaded all the files from the Window$ driver used by ndiswrapper into it? I missed just one .sys file when I used ndiswrapper, and it messed me up completely :(

Can you post the output of
# ndiswrapper -l

Hi all,
below the output of:

iwconfig wlan0 up

ndiswrapper -l

iwconfig wlan0 up

Quote:

returned an error so I changed into:

ifconfig wlan0 up

but nothing happened

ndiswrapper -l

Quote:

returned:
neti2220 : driver installed
device (17FE:2220) present

I loaded file from my acer aspire driver cd (Winxp driver). Command was:

Quote:

ndiswrapper -i neti2220.inf

Thanks in advance for any help
Maw.

Did you issue the following commands after ndiswrapper -i neti****

# ndiswrapper -m
# modprobe ndiswrapper

Yes,
I used commands:
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper
both as root.

But nothing happened.

Thanks in advance.

Have you configured your wireless settings in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf? I think you have to enter your ESSID and passphrase or WEP Key in this file. After doing that you have to do /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_restart.
But for this your wlan0 interface must be up. Is your card being listed in lspci?

Hi,
I looked in:
/etc/rc.d/
directory and I found following directories:

Quote:

init.d
rc0.d
rc2.d
rc4.d
rc6.d
rc1.d
rc3.d
rc5.d

and these files

Quote:

rc.local
rc.sysinit
rc

but no trace of :

Quote:

rc.inet1.conf

Following output of
lspci
command:

Quote:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
00:0b.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 64M] (rev a1)

As usual thanks in advance for any help

Ps
in fedora 10 there was no file to set or configure. Once installed ndiswrapper I typed:

Quote:

modprobe ndiswrapper

and automatically any wireless network was discovered and listed as wireless network in nework manager.

Quote:

Originally Posted by adityavpratap (Post 3600492)

Sorry! My bad! This is the setup in Slackware. But now I see that you are using Fedora, and hence the contents of rc.d will be different. I am sorry I can't help you much as I haven't used Fedora and as such I am not aware of how to configure the wireless network on it.

From the output of lscpi posted by you, I am assuming that your card is -

INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter

It seems to be causing a lot of trouble to many Fedora users. However check out the following link -
here

Especially, I would suggest you issue the following command -

lsmod | grep ipw

If it shows up any thing like ipw2200 or anything, do the following

# modprobe -r ipw2200
# modprobe ndiswrapper

then check the output of dmesg and also iwconfig