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ndiswrapper, wpa_supplicant, prism duette WORKS!
first some history:
in a recent post to this board, i wrote saying that i could not get ndiswrapper to work with my smc2835w (version 1) pcmcia card. this card uses the prism duette chipset. one helpful person responded saying that there is a prism54 native linux driver that may work with my card. in fact, this is true, to some extent. indeed, i got prism54 to work with my card back in april. i even got it to work with WEP. but i was unsatisfied b/c prism54 does not support wpa as of yet. so while i patiently wait, i decided to look for other solutions.
up until recently, the only way i could get the card to work with wpa was with linuxant's driverloader. but again, i did not find this very satisfying b/c after my free 30 day trial expires, i will have to pay $20 to use it further. so on i searched for a solution.
fast forward to today:
after reading ndiswrapper's pages very thoroughly, i found that netgear's wg511 pcmcia card also uses the prism duette chipset. so i decided to try and use its winXP driver with ndiswrapper. yeah, talk about a hack- using a windows driver not even designed for my card in linux ...?!!?
well, talk about miracles- it actually worked! i just followed the ndiswrapper instructions and it all worked (loaded) on my first try. i then started up wpa_supplicant and after doing an ifup on my interface, that even worked on my first try! i am currently using ndiswrapper 1.3rc1 and wpa_supplicant 0.3.9. my kernel version and distro are in my sig.
so what's the point of this post? it's to give other people hope, especially if they use a card with the prism duette chipset. after going through everything that i have gone through, i think i could possibly lend advice to anyone trying to get such a card up and running, whether it is with prism54/WEP/firmware issues or ndiswrapper/wpa or driverloader in the event you get desperate.
cheers.
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