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Old 05-25-2005, 09:35 PM   #1
slackware1299
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Wireless Network Setup


Hey everyone, I am running slackware 10.1 on the new 2.6.11.8 kernel and am have a wireless network, which many of you know usually is causes problems to setup,
http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...id=36&prid=665
that is the usb network adapter I have, except version 4, but its same

And I was told to use ndiswrapper to set the windows driver to work on linux, so here is the driver i downloaded:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...548d#WUSB54Gv4

after installing ndiswrapper, I do teh following:
I go to the correct dir in the konsole where the driver is
and do
Code:
ndiswrapper -i rt2500usb.inf
I get message about driver being installed

Code:
ndiswrapper -l
I get message that similar to this
Quote:
Installed ndis drivers
bcmw15 driver present, hardware present
It's after this that it no longer works
Code:
modprobe ndiswrapper
After doing modprobe to load the module type
The konsole totally freezes and it wont do anything and just stays on modprobe and does go back to letting me type any commands. I exit out of konsole and start it back up and it lets me do normal commands like ls or cd, but when I do commands like ndiswrapper -l or modprobe it totally freezes up. It still lets me do stuff like ndiswrapper help or wahtever and it gives me the different commands, so it only freezes when it has to do w/ the driver.

So I restart the computer and when I load linux it gives me message that hda2 (which is my partition for root) was unmounted incorrectly and causes for a check for bad blocks. Anyone ever run into something similar or know what to do?

thanks a lot

Last edited by slackware1299; 05-25-2005 at 09:40 PM.
 
Old 05-26-2005, 02:16 PM   #2
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Look on the bottom of that adapter... if it says version 4 just give up now.. I spent months trying to get it to work with ndiswrapper and many many kernels/ndiswrapper versions.. Also, linuxant doesn't support it.. I suggest selling it and getting a new one... sorry for the bad news...

btw: linuxant supports version 1 and 2 I believe
 
Old 05-26-2005, 05:20 PM   #3
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blah
bad news, I'll try to get a new one, what do you suggest I get, that I can use w/ my wireless network, and wireless router downstairs, I need something smilar to this that would be easy to setup and works good on Linux with out much trouble
 
Old 05-26-2005, 05:41 PM   #4
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If you want 54mbit, get anything with an Atheros chipset. MadWiFi drivers work great, and are really easy to set up.

If you only need/want 11mbit, get anything with a Prism2.5 chipset. There's kernel-level drivers for it, and it works right out of the box.

And avoid usb-network "cards" like the plague that they are.
 
Old 05-27-2005, 10:22 AM   #5
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Given that I don't do a whole lot of PC to PC transfers inside our network, but really use my wireless for Internet access, I'm happy with my choice, a Cabletron Systems card I got off of eBay for a song. The model I'm using is a Cabletron Roamabout CSIBD-AA, and yes, it does work right out of the box (or with a tiny little bit of tweaking if you use WEP, like I do. Our neighborhood is already full of unsecured wireless, no need to add to the noise).

You can find them on the super-cheap on eBay most of the time.
 
Old 05-27-2005, 04:58 PM   #6
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I use Orinoco Classic Gold for 11 MB/s-works great in Slack 10 with kernel 2.4.30 and cheap!
 
  


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