Hello, and thank you in advance to the posters.

I built a Fedora Linux computer and am now trying to connect to the internet. I have a WG111T NETGEAR USB WIRELESS ADAPTER on Fedora Linux 3.

I looked up information and did the ndiswrapper thing on some drivers I downloaded on two .inf files. (It's the first time I use ndiswrapper). I looks like it worked.

Then I do the ndiswrapper -l and this comes out:

athfmwdl driver installed, hardware present
netgw11t driver installed

I have the USB adapter connected. I dont know if this means it worked. Now, IM STUCK. I dont know what do to.

I tried setting up the network, but dont seem to find in the list of devices. How is it supposed to come out? PLEASE DO HELP. This is the first time I do this. I have little experience with Linux. I tried researching before asking, but I cant make it work.

Please do help.

Leo

As root try the following from the console or xterm session;

iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID
dhclient wlan0

Please see for the details;
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...on#Load_module

The 'ESSID' value (the second command above) is replaced by the name of your wireless access points name as shown from the first command above. If all works well then you should have a working network connection.

Now you need to use system-config-network and create a new 'wireless device', choose other wireless card.

You could as root simply create a new /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file instead,sample below;

IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=no
ONHOTPLUG=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=MyComputerNameHere
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=Auto

In either case when done restart the network service as root of course;
service network restart

it tells me that "interface doesnt support scanning"

what can i do? please help. already spent hours on this and cant make it work.

have u tried setting up on ur web browser settings?

yes. its not the browser.

when i do IWLIST SCANNING
i get INTERFACE DOESNT SUPPORT SCANNING

when i do IWCONFIG
i get NO WIRELESS EXTENSIONS

when i do NDISWRAPPER -l
i get athfmwdl driver installed, hardware present
netwg11t driver installed


why doesnt it say hardware present on netwg11t if the wireless usb is connected?