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I'm a linux newbie who wants to migrate from windows forever. My experience with linux so far had been good, i managed to get xgl, nvidia driver and other softwares running. However, i can't get the internet.
I tried using ndiswrapper to get wireless lan through my Linksys WUSB54GS. I used WUSB54GS.inf and the sys files specified at the ndiswrapper wikki's list.
I had the same issue but managed to install ndiswrapper in Suse 10.1.
as root run the dmesg command to get clues to hardware detection to see what went wrong. /var/logs/messages may also give you a clue.
One issue i faced was the USB wireless card showed up as wlan0 or wlan1 each time i booted up. using udev rules (see info udev) u can always assign it the same value.
nndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ndiswrapper version 1.16 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:134): loadndiswrapper failed (1536); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:141): ndiswrapper: initialization failed
ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ndiswrapper version 1.16 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:134): loadndiswrapper failed (1536); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
ndiswrapper (wrapper_init:141): ndiswrapper: initialization failed
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
wat does dis mean and is it stopping wlan 0 from showing up.
this is what worked for me ... using TEW - 424 UB
USB wireless adapter
the commands
ndiswrapper -i /data/tew-424ub/Drivers/Windows\ XP/SiS163u.INF
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0 &
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config files
note the "usb-4-1\:1.0" value u can get by looking at /var/log/messages after pluggin in the USB drive. if YAST recognizes ur adapter, let it create the skeleton config files, you can modify them later
ALL the best !!!
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linux:/etc/sysconfig/network # cat ifcfg-wlan-bus-usb-4-1\:1.0
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
BROADCAST=''
IPADDR=''
MTU=''
NAME='Trendnet USB WLAN'
NETMASK=''
NETWORK=''
REMOTE_IPADDR='192.168.0.1'
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='mZxt.HWzOF+zVayA'
USERCONTROL='yes'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CA_CERT=''
WIRELESS_CHANNEL='2'
WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_ESSID='****MY ESSID HERE*******'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0='s:****MY PASSWORD HERE***'
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='64'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY=''
WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD=''
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK=''
_nm_name='bus-usb-4-1:1.0' <--- i think this should match file name below
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the USB value may look sth like this on ur machine
May 10 19:55:27 linux kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
May 10 19:55:27 linux kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 5, io mem 0xffa80800
May 10 19:55:27 linux kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
May 10 19:55:27 linux kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
May 10 19:55:27 linux kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
Linksys did not work and was bieng gay, however, i had a dlink dwl g122 and used windows 98 drivers from the driver cd and it worked. BTW, i did not understand wat the second half of ur text was for. Also, i cant seem to get the internet on boot.
How do i make wireless connection available at boot, baring in mind dat yast does not recognise wlan0
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