ndiswrapper doesn't work for US Robotics USR 5410 and Linksys WPC 54G
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ndiswrapper doesn't work for US Robotics USR 5410 and Linksys WPC 54G
I have a US Robotics 5410 Cardbus card. I have installed ndiswrapper .11. I have a PCI to PCMCIA extender using yenta socket. When I do lsmod it shows ndiswrapper when I do ndiswrapper -l it gives
[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
lsbcmnds driver present
lstinds driver present
usr11g driver present
When I do lsmod it shows
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ndiswrapper 100936 0
tun 12737 0
md5 8001 1
ipv6 235233 21
autofs4 21701 0
i2c_dev 13249 0
i2c_core 25921 1 i2c_dev
sunrpc 136997 1
dm_mod 56773 0
button 10449 0
battery 12485 0
ac 8773 0
yenta_socket 22721 1
pcmcia_core 66681 1 yenta_socket
uhci_hcd 32729 0
ehci_hcd 31941 0
tg3 79045 0
floppy 57297 0
ext3 117961 3
jbd 59353 1 ext3
ata_piix 12357 4
libata 44101 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 20289 5
scsi_mod 112009 2 libata,sd_mod
.
When I insert the card nothing happens . now light
not shown in ifconfig or iwconfig.
Please help..
I also have Linksys WPC54G version2 card. It also doesn't work. Same problems.
I am using Fedora Core 3
[root@localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp
You need to have the card inserted before you configure and make ndiswrapper, not after. You state that after running ndiswrapper -l the drivers are present. Is it saying "hardware present" as well? If not then its a hardware problem ie. If you have hotplugging installed then Fedora will show the card in your hardware list. If its there then you need to run through a ndiswrapper uninstall procedure and then run through the whole install procedure again, making sureyour hardware is installed.
Hope this helps
Regards
Chris
Thanks for the reply.
I went throug the whole process with the card inserted and it didn't work. how to check if the hotplug is installed in my machine ?
can it be that the driver I am using is different? I got the wireless card from Fry's and go the driver from the Linuxant website. The output is
[root@localhost usrobotics_linux]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
usr11g driver present
Okay, it isnt detecting your hardware, although your driver is being installed correctly. I see the driver you got for it from linuxant - that looks fine. I haven't any experience with fedora so you will need to research that elsewhere to ensure hotplugging is installed. Can you post back an output for the command
I am having the same problem with my linksys card but when I type ndiswrapper -l i get driver present hardware present the thing with me is when I type modprobe ndiswrapper my computer frezees and i get nothing
does cardbus devices work in
CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller ?
PCMCIA devices seems to work for orinoco_cs driver.
Thanks
after installing the new kernal and then reinstalling ndiswrapper and my inf file i got my wireless card to power up... It no longer frezees my computer when i type ndiswrapper... Now i just have to get my card to connect to my router and give me my internet access. So I can be like that lil guy with the wireless laptop from the best buy commercial and start singing " IM FREE IM FREE" LOL thanks to all for your help...
this thread is done, but in case someone got here due to gone15's post about Fedora freezing after invoking `modprobe ndiswrapper`, i thought i'd note that this is the normal situation for Fedora users with the 2.6 kernel. see ndiswrapper page on 4K stack size and kernel crashing on Fedora: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...dex.php/Fedora
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