Slackware 10 + Belkin PCI 802.11g

Im trying to sort out my wireless card using this guide:

linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040507104718960

Without much success

I dont know what im doing wrong

Its a Belkin PCI 802.11g Broadcom

Im up to this stage.




verify your Windows driver was installed:

o /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l

o output:

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 present (Yes, i get this present)
utility (No sign of this, dont think its a big deal though ?)



"I have provided a log of my compile for your reference." (eh? The guide doesnt say compile anything, but presumably he has and you need to, I cant decipher this log)



nothing is showing up in iwconfig

You have to load the ndiswrapper module now:

modprobe ndiswrapper

Then your card should go hot and you can configure it with iwconfig.

I should mention though, I tired to get your same exact card to work with that driver and never managed to get it working, I eventually had to buy another card. Of course that was on 2.4.20, you might have better luck on 2.6.x.

Ah thanks for the reply

Im using the 2.4 defualt slack10 kernel at the moment...

So i guess if you didnt get it to work with that, i wont have a chance...

Maybe the best solution is to buy a different card... Is it the Linksys 802.11g that comnes with the natively supported prism chip? are there any other models/brands 11g s that use prism?

Well, by all means try to get your card working. Maybe the newest versions of ndiswrapper will work better.

My problem was that when I tried to set the SSID of my router, the kernel crashed. Nobody (even the ndiswrapper devs on their IRC channel) could tell me why this happened.

Maybe you will have better luck.

As for supported cards, here is a good list:

Linux Supported WI-Fi Card List

What card did you get?

Presumably im looking for Prism based cards?

These two might be ok? :

Linksys 802.11g WUSB54G USB Prism GT

SMC 802.11g 2802W PCI Prism GT

Just as a note, the WUSB54G linksys is not 100% compatible with prism54 because of the USB cord. If you get it working Ephemeral, let me know cause I want that adapter. Thanks


-GSD

Originally posted by GodSendDeath Just as a note, the WUSB54G linksys is not 100% compatible with prism54 because of the USB cord. If you get it working Ephemeral, let me know cause I want that adapter. Thanks -GSD

AS chance has it, immediately after reading this message I went to the change log for 2.6.8 (just released) and noticed this

<david-b@pacbell.net> [PATCH] USB: pxa/rndis device descriptor This fixes a problem that all pxa2xx_udc g_ether devices would run into. They'd give the wrong descriptors, like: > --------msg1- usbview ---------- > Device Descriptor: bcdUSB: 0x0200 > bDeviceClass: 0xFF > bDeviceSubClass: 0x00 > bDeviceProtocol: 0x00 > bMaxPacketSize0: 0x10 (16) Windows doesn't like RNDIS-supporting devices to point out that they're really vendor-specific. So this patch makes sure they don't. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownelL@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

I don't know for certain that it will fix the problem you were experiencing but if you still have the adapter it sounds like it might be worth a try.

Ive still got my Belkin PCI card in my PC.

I dont know how im going to get it going...

If i was to sell it, what card should i buy to replace it?

I think ive got the Ndiswrapper loading succesfully at start up now.

But i dont know what to do next. This is now a distro specific prob. How will i see it in Slack 10 and configure it?

You just follow the ndiswrapper install guide, it shows you how to bring up the card and give it an IP.

The instructions it gives you will work on all distros.

If the module is loaded and there is the alias wlan0 ndiswrapper line in your /etc/modprobe.conf file, then you should be able to configure the card with iwconfig and either request and IP address from you router with dhcpcd or assign a static one with ifconfig. If you go the static route, be sure to use route to point at your router.