hello, everybody.

i'm trying to use ndiswrapper to run a windows driver for my new d-link pci adapter (dwl-g520). when i run "ndiswrapper -l", it tells me that neta3ab, the driver, is present - but then i run "modprobe ndiswrapper", then "dmesg" to see if the driver is loaded, and it doesn't come up.

i have redhat 9 on an hp pavilion computer, and just got kernel-source-2.4.20-6.i386.rpm specially for ndiswrapper, in case that's important.

any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you!

Are you running modprobe as root? Also check the output of lsmod. If ndiswrapper is loading, it will definitely show there. If it's not loading, is modprobe giving any errors?

lsmod lists ndiswrapper; modprobe doesn't give any errors, sorry.

Then you got no problems, you ought to be good to go. Check the output of iwconfig and see if your wireless card shows up.

but when i do that, it simply says:

[root@localhost Drivers]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

ppp0 no wireless extensions.


T_T

OK, lets back up a touch and make sure that everything is OK so far.....

What kind of card do you have and are you sure the chipset is supported by ndiswrapper? Do you have any indication that the card has power and has been recongized by the system (Can you see anything with lspci)?

When you ran make install, there were no errors of any kind?

When you ran ndiswrapper -i /path/to/drivername.inf were there any errors? Did it create a /etc/ndiswrapper/drivername directory?

Running ndiswrapper shows the output of drivername present. The word present is, uh, present, right?

When booting up are you running the Network service, you will need to do this in order for wlan0 to show up.

maybe you already did this....

ndiswrapper -m

OMG now dmesg works!!!!!!!! where was i told to do this "ndiswrapper -m" crap?? now it says "wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0f:3d:a8:e2:03 using driver a3ab.sys" just like it's supposed to!! thanks SOOO much trey! thanks to all you guys. you're geniuses, simply geniuses. now to see if it'll work...

I believe that would be found in the INSTALL file........

but it says to do that way at the very END "once everything works fine"...way past anything i had done yet...

anyway, do i have to now create a startup driver configuration file in the /etc/init.d directory? and if so what should its name be?

I'd put the necessary commands in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file

try this first.... (i used this on mandrake 10)


vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

add these lines

ESSID=youressid
KEY=yourkeyhere

EDIT: if needed add ONBOOT=YES to have the card start on bootup

O.o it didn't work...well actually what was it supposed to do? am i not doing something because that's probably it. ;_;

you can do that same stuff with iwconfig,

what he told you to do was set your ESSID or accesspoint to use, and KEY, or..your encryption key so you can use well..encryption.

you can do this with iwconfig also, just type
$ iwconfig essid youressid
$ iwconfig key yourkey

it should set both and you should be good to go, no restarting or even bringing the device down then up or anything. if you dont know your key, or which essid you use, you can put
$iwconfig essid any
$iwconfig key off

you wont have encryption with these settings and it will use whatever access point it can find to connect to.

edit: and for getting it to do everything for you on boot. do what Hangdog42 said and just add the lines to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.

you'll probly only need to add

dhcpcd wlan0

at most i would say add

ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0