Ndiswrapper sees hardware, driver but will not modprobe

kvgeorge1 · 05-16-2006, 04:21 PM

I am using Fedora Core 4 with NDISWRAPPER 1.16. I am also using a Belkin F5D6020 ver 3. (realtek) NIC with my 2Wire wireless gateway. NDISWRAPPER sees the driver installed, and the hardware present, but doing a modprobe ndiswrapper the link light does not turn on. The card is working as this works with M$ without a hitch.

Here is the output from ndiswrapper -l

Code:

[root@localhost network-scripts]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
net8180         driver installed, hardware present

And a copy of the wlan0 config that ndiswrapper -m made:

Code:

[root@localhost network-scripts]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=2WIRE736
CHANNEL=6
MODE=Auto
RATE=Auto

Now, I am also using WEP, but this should not prevent the light from turning on (or should it???) and the key is in a file called keys-wlan0.

Any suggestions?

kvgeorge1 · 05-16-2006, 06:40 PM

UPDATE!!!
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Ok, through a different thread, I can now get a link light. However, I cannot get a DHCP address. When I manually assign a static IP address to the card, I am not able to ping even the gateway.