Installing ASUS wireless card with NDISWRAPPER
 

Operating under Fedora Core 2, I'm attempting to activate a wireless card using Ndiswrapper. I've installed the ASUS driver for the card (a DWL-G510), and got the confirmation "mrv8ka51 present", but the card isn't working.

The following is an extract from dmesg:

ACPI disabled because your bios is from 98 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
mapped 4G/4G trampoline to ffff3000.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=02345000 soft=02344000
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes)
Detected 300.785 MHz processor.

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb0e0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Invalid ACPI-PCI IRQ routing table
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0

ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-0.8]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.


? - Does the note that my BIOS is too old mean that it's not possible to get the card working?

It sounds like you may not have cardbus support.

try this...

grep CARDBUS /boot/config-`uname -r`

see if you get this..

CONFIG_CARDBUS=y


Do you get anything from these commands like beeping or lights on the modem?

modprobe ndiswrapper

cardctl insert

cardctl ident

cardctl eject

modprobe -r ndiswrapper

I followed your suggestion, and got the "CARDBUS_CONFIG=Y" confirmation. When I enter the "modprobe ndiswrapper" instruction, the system hangs (occurred three times, I've had to re-boot), and the light on the wireless card has never come on.

Also, ndiswrapper -l produces the response "mrv8ka51 present, fuzzy" Previously, I had simply "mrv8ka51 present"

Can you try another Windows Driver?