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Originally Posted by Blitzkreig75
I've deciced to abort this wireless thing entirely. I've got a wired network router on the way, so I'll try that, Thanks to everyone anyway.
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Hey man, before you give up on the wireless, try this below. Find your windows drivers for your card (you need the file that ends in .inf), and do the following:
(this is from a post in the ubuntu forums I made, but it should work just fine for you):
I wanted to add to this in that when I've tried to install ndiswrapper and drivers, if I've done something out of order it gives me more problems than not. So here's my own quick how-to:
Code:
apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
Code:
ndiswrapper -i <<yourdriver.inf>>
At this point, you should get something returned that shows your 'driver present, hardware present'... for example, mine returns:
Code:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
Then do the following (and seriously, do it in order, it helps)
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modprobe ndiswrapper
At this point, you should be pretty close to up and running. Check iwconfig to see if your interface is there (for example, wlan0 on my system).
This will return a list of network interfaces, and a bunch of properties for each... just make sure that your wireless card is showing. Then:
Code:
iwconfig wlan0 essid ESSID key XXXXXXXXXX
Replace 'wlan0' with whatever your card is, replace ESSID with your SSID, and replace the XXXXXXXX with your wep/wpa key (if you are using encryption).
Now if you run iwconfig wlan0 you should see your essid listed, and your wep key, in the data returned. Do a simple:
And you should be up and on the 'net!
Now to write your interfaces config file so that this happens on bootup.
Code:
vim /etc/network/interfaces
You can replace vim with your editor of choice. Now add the following lines into the config file after the 'primary network interface' portion:
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iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless_essid ESSID
wireless_mode managed
wireless_keymode restricted
wireless_key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
auto wlan0
Now, you will have to tailor this for yourself, for examaple change the ESSID to whatever yours is, change the dhcp to static if you are using a static IP, change the wireless_mode to auto if that is what you are doing, etc.
Hope that helps, not as short as I thought it would be!
But this is the best process I've developed, so that if I follow these steps in order when I've installed ndiswrapper (on a variety of ubuntu, edubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu systems) it gets up and running every time. This should work fine on your mepis system (you may already have ndiswrapper installed, I think I remember that from a mepis install I did.) If you do an apt-get ndiswrapper-utils, and it says 'current version already installed', then skip that part.
-olly
Installing wireless card
