getting wifi to work with ndiswrapper
 

I have been using this guy's blog to help me out...
dell wifi

Well anyway I got ndiswrapper all installed and followed ihjis page.

I alredy have a 10/100 nic that is eth0

I tried to remove the wifi driver with the command:
ndiswrapper -e ....inf

It reports back and says that ...inf is not installed and to use -l to view a list of installed drivers.

that command reports badk:
"Installed ndis drivers:
bcmw15a hardware present"

Next he tells me to type:
ndiswrapper -m //This put an entry to /etc/modprobe.conf
that entry is "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper"

Now is where everything starts getting screwed up. He says to type:
"iwconfig eth1 Mode managed"
returns: "Error : unrecognised wireless request "MODE"
iwconfig eth1 end restricted
returns: "Error : unrecognised wireless request "end"
iwconfig eth1 key <your_key_here>
returns: Error for wireless request "Set Endoce" (8B2A)
iwconfig eth1 essid <home_network>
returns: bash: syntax erroir near unexpectedtoken 'newline'

now I type isconfig, but when I do it says:
lo no wireless connection
sit0 no wireless connection
eth0 no wireless connection

Does anyone have any iday how to help me? I need wifi for school and would really like to get this up. I know it dan be done, I just don't know how.

The interface name is wlan0, so use iwconfig with wlan0 instead of eth1
Regards

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I did try to substiture that for eth0, but it didn't work either. I can't remember what it was telling me. I can post when I get home. I think it said something like "device doesn't exist". I also tried to change the name in that file to eth1. That didnt' work either.

OK, so on the link for the dell 8600
I get to the part in the wireless section that tells me start entering iwconfig commands.

It says to enter:
iwconfig eth1 Mode managed.
It didn't like eth1, so I substituted wlan0 (that's what the alias is in that /etc/modprobe.conf.
It spit an error "unrecogized wireless request "Mode".
I changed it to "mode" so the command looked like:
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
it spit out "error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8b06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; no such device.

It is like it is not recognizing the wireless device, yet
ndiswrapper -l /outputs
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a hardware present

ndiswrapper -m /outputs
This put an entry to /etc/modprobe.conf


Anyone with a little XP in this, please help me. I can run any commands you want and post the outputs.
Let me know please.
Zakk

Also, check this out.....

if is use ndiswrapper -i /../bcmw15a.inf to reinstall it, it states that it is already installed, use -e to remove it.
if is use ndiswrapper -e /../bcmw15a .inf to remove it, it states that it is not installed, use -l to list installed drivers
if I use ndiwrapper -l it says "Installed ndis drivers", bcmw15a hardware present.


It is all confused. Should I try to uninstall the ndiswrapper rpm and start over?

Does lsmod shows ndiswrapper loaded? You didn't mention about:
You can try a different version of ndiswrapper because there are some problems with different versions.
To remove the driver you have to to do:

Yeah, I tried that (see my previous post). It won't let me because it says that it is not installed, but it is installed......Why does it have to be so difficult?

getting wifi to work
 

hey zchoyt,
check to see if you have "ifcfg-wlan0" file in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. As you know the file is needed if you call >wlan0 up<.
I just finished getting my realtek 8180 working with mandrake 10.0, I had to go through the install for ndiswrapper 3 times before it finally worked.
P.S. be careful with spelling when calling the iwconfig!
w4rth0g

You must write: ndiswrapper -e bcmw15a (without the .inf).
Also before removing everything and start over do a:
to see if it loads OK, or there are errors on loading the module.

Ok, I tried
and it returned
What should I do from here? Or what do you suggest?

Zakk

Still,
so then I try that


And still:
and:

How do I remove ndiswrapper? It is possible that I installed the wrong version for fedora C2. I would like to start over.

If you cannot remove the driver (with ndiswrapper -e ...) then you have not installed ndiswrapper correctly. That's why you don't have the module. As for the fact that it lists the 2 drivers, it reads the driver name from a file in /etc/ (I think it's /etc/ndiswrapper.conf or something, not sure and I don't have a linux box handy). Find that file and delete it and then start over:
In the link you mentioned there is nothing about installing the module. So after untaring the source, go into the newlly created directory (named ndiswraper-version-number) and do a:
After that add the driver for your card: ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver.inf
Then: modprobe ndiswrapper
and if there are no problems, as ndiswrapper has various problems from a version to another, you can use iwconfig to configure your card.
Good luck

Make sure you have root access when you install ndiswrapper.