Dell 1450 USB wireless adapter on FC5; hardware not seen by ndiswrapper
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Dell 1450 USB wireless adapter on FC5; hardware not seen by ndiswrapper
Ok, I'm pretty new at Fedora when it comes to networking. Right now, I'm learning from a book. That's how I found out about ndiswrapper.
I'm running Fedora Core 5 on a IBM workstation.
So far, ndiswrapper is installed and works (to my knowledge...)
I used the DELLNIC.inf file and ndiswrapper says the driver is installed, but it doesn't say anything about the hardware.
Part of me thinks it has to do with the USB port and it doesn't power on the adapter. But, I don't know, it could be something else.
I've looked around the forum a bit. Some other people had similar hardware, but, not the same problem as me...
Thanks for the help. Everything is working fine now.
I can only guess, though, that it wasn't ndiswrapper or my hardware, but one of my config files. It was the ..../keys-wlan0 file. For some reason, it misprinted the text with
KEY=s:xxxxxxxxxx
with "x" being the wep key
once I took out the "s:" part, just because I didn't think it belonged there, I was able to get on the internet and the network.
So, is that file really supposed to have the part that I took out or not?
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