I am currently running Slackware 12 with default kernel and am trying to get my netgear wg111v2 usb adapter running.

I have installed ndiswrapper and loaded a driver that should work but I have no idea how to configure ndiswrapper so it will recognize my adapter, my network and load on startup.

running "ndiswrapper -l" I see that the "driver installed" and the "device (0846:6a00) present"

Can someone offer me some suggestions on how to get my card to work?

Thanks,


draAx

modprobe ndiswrapper should load the module and present the interface. Check with iwconfig. You should see a wlan0.

Use iwconfig to set the wireless parameters. Example:
# iwconfig wlan0 essid your_ssid mode Managed key 01234567

Use ifconfig to set the network parameters. If using DHCP, just run dhcpcd to pull an IP address:
dhcpcd wlan0

Exit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf to store your network and wireless parameters so that they persist after a reboot.

Thanks 2Gnu for your reply.

I have tried to set up ndiswrapper using iwconfig and ifconfig but I am still not connected to the net.....

Running iwconfig this is the output :

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any Nickname:"draAx"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

And here is my ifconfig output :

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:4D:00:C0:9B
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I am not sure what else I need to do in order to get up and running. I am kind of new to networking. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

draAx

Is your router broadcasting the SSID? If not, turn it on.

What security, if any, are you using? If WPA, there's a whole other step to this. Turn off WPA, WEP and MAC address filtering for now.

Try to bring the interface up first:
# iwconfig wlan0 up

Then, set the SSID and look at the output:
# iwconfig wlan0 essid blah_blah
# iwconfig wlan0

In your example, the NIC is not associated with the router:
It should look more like this:
Note the "Not associated" message is replaced with the BSSID (MAC address) of the router and there are valid numbers for signal strength and noise. Once you are associated, run dhcpcd to get an IP address.