Hello All,
I am trying to setup my wireless card (see title) with ndiswrapper and I can't get it to work. I have a Presario R3000Z with Athlon 64 3700+.
I installed ndiswrapper and the 64 windows driver for my card.
Here goes what get:

linux:/home/octavian/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper # ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
netbc564 driver present, hardware present
linux:/home/octavian/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper # modprobe ndiswrapper
linux:/home/octavian/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper # dmesg
Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 selinux=0 console=tty0 resume=/dev/hda6 desktop elevator=as splash=silent)
Linux version 2.6.8-24.14-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)) #1 Tue Mar 29 09:27:43 UTC 2005
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Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 000001003cc9c800(sit0)
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
warning: many lost ticks.
Your time source seems to be instable or some driver is hogging interupts
rip acpi_ec_read+0x150/0x181
module ndiswrapper unsupported by SUSE/Novell, tainting kernel.
ndiswrapper version 1.2rc1@050413 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver netbc564 (,10/01/2002,3.70.17.5) loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ndiswrapper: using irq 11
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:a3:86:13 using driver netbc564, configuration file 14E4:4320.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP

Then I execute
iwconfig
iwlist wlan0 scan

it finds the networks around, I can see the one I want to connect to.

iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid ....

It says there on the ndiswrapper webpage then now I have to setup the network parameters for the interface wlan0. What does it consist of?

Anyway I skip it and do:
dhcpcd wlan0

Now my wireless light is blinking (it used to be on all the time under windows- does it have anything to do with my problem?) but the internet is not working.

Anyone successfull with it?
Suggestions?

Whats your ifconfig and iwconfig output? Has it actually obtained an IP using dhcpd?

I ran it now and this is what I get... but this because now I am in my office and it looks like there is no wireless network around. Else, it finds some networks. I will try to run it somewhere where there's a network available...

linux:/home/octavian/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:11558625 Missed beacon:0

About weather I obtained an IP or not... how do I find it out?
If I run dhcpd it does not display anything ... just goes to the next "prompter".
Thanks for trying.
Octavian

I have to add that if I run:

ifconfig wlan0 up

and then:

dhcpcd wlan0

I will get a message saying "no configuration was found for wlan0. Nevertheless it will be shut down... "

Help please,
Octavian

Are you using encryption on that network?

NO. It is our public library network. But I triedit with several networks.

Followup to post 4)
I have to add that if I run:

ifconfig wlan0 up

and then:

dhcpcd wlan0

now I get a blinking light and something like:

wlan0 is running and if wlan0 not running delete /var//....

But still no life signs from the internet.
Help please,
Octavian