The 2.4 and the 2.5 are Prism2 chipsets, Harris and Intersil gave away all the documentation necessary to write a driver.

The 2.7 is a Broadcom chip, and this company is being particularly nasty about releasing enough specs to write a driver upon. Blackbox drivers have been written in the past, but for big things, like the Mac motherboard chipsets from the mid-90s... doing one from the grund-up for a network card seems to most of the driver maintainers as a lot of effort for very little payoff.

Cheers,

Finegan

I checked the Orinoco development page at SourceForge and it said that it only works on the prism2 chipsets...here is the link...http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/

You're right. Only works for the early version of the WMP that uses the prism2 chipset. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell which you have until you've opened the box and plugged it in :-(

Hello.. old problem new solution.,..


Has anyone tried this NDISwrapper? on what distro's?

This loads a module to the kernel that understands Windows drivers... It is saidd to work with broadcom 4301 (linksys wmp 11 2.7); 4309 and newer 802.11g chips...


http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

and supported chips

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/s..._chipsets.html

have fun.. this weekend will try it! finaly!!!

Latz

Yes, I have tried NDIS Wrapper with my Linksys WMP11 v2.7 (Broadcom 4301 chipset) and it works fine. I successfully got it working on Knoppix/Debian with a older kernel than stated by the NDIS Wrapper people. They recommend 2.4.23+ and I have 2.4.21 . I am going to try on Mandrake...

Nice!!! can you keep us posted of how you didi it?

Just installed the Ndiswrapper and then what? used the LInksys CD for the original drivers (the .inf file I believe)? is it stable?

Can someone compile a distribution for me so I don’t have to go through the process of learning how to make install files? Or at least give me the step by step to do it? I don't mean to demand someone to do it, if someone can tell me how to install drivers from that link I'm all set. Also, Mandrake 10.0 recognized my sound blaster auidgy gamer sound card but i don't hear any sound coming from it.

Bakshi,

Don't double post, its bad form... and a lot of duplication of effort, although the link to here from there would have stopped some of it...

Regardless, no biggie, what's the exact card you have?

cat /proc/pci

And just paste in the bit with the wireless card info...

If its a Broadcom, then the Linuxant drivers are pretty user friendly, albeit a temp license...

Cheers,

Finegan

Linuxant Drivers? Sorry for double posting. Yeah, mine is a broadcom PCI card. The datasheet is located here ftp://ftp.linksys.com/datasheet/wmp11_v4_ds.pdf

How do I now locate the program after I installed it and install the Windows drivers?

Whew, its not going to be one of those... at least, not like most of the troublesome experiences you've had installing before, the kernel module opens a webserver on some high port number and all of the configuration is done through there, building the module is a little trouble... it would be easier if you started and then posted as you got stuck.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hi,
I am using Linux kernel-2.4.20-8. I wan to compile hostap-0.2.0 for my wireless card.
Wireless card info:
¡§Cisco System ¡§,¡¨350 series wireless adapter¡¨
Manfid:0x015f, 0x000a

Here I am mentioning all the step which I did to compile hostap-0.2.0.
#Cd /usr/src/hostap-0.2.0
#make „³ No Error working fine.
#make install -> No error working fine
#service pcmcia restart „³ pcmcia working

#modprobe hostap_pci

Here I am getting error->

[root@localhost root]# modprobe hostap_pci
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol register_netdevice
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol __netdev_watchdog_up
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol __kfree_skb
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol alloc_skb
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol pskb_expand_head
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol __write_lock_failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol ether_setup
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol skb_under_panic
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol unregister_netdevice
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol alloc_etherdev
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol remove_wait_queue
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol unregister_netdev
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol wireless_send_event
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol request_module
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol proc_mkdir
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol __read_lock_failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol dev_alloc_name
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol dev_queue_xmit
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol ___pskb_trim
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol add_wait_queue
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol proc_net
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol skb_clone
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol softnet_data
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: unresolved symbol irq_stat
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/net/hostap.o: insmod hostap_pci failed.



Does anyone have any solution?
Really I am straggling with it.