plz help!, cant get mi wireless card working
 

hey folks, first of all, im using Gentoo on a toshiba satellite, i have an Xterasys wireless card, with realtek chipset. Any way i have tried to configure ndiswrapper thousends of times an everithing goes ok...
i modprobe, and everything goes ok, then next step:
Any ideas?, i'll really apreciate any help, cos i have alredy like a month tring mi card to work, and if i can't make it work in short time, i'll have to return to windows :( :cry:
Any help will be apreciated

Looks like the wireless tools package is not installed.

Install that and try again.

ok i reintall wireless tools, and realize that is not
"sbin/iwconfig", it is "/usr/sbin/iwconfig" so now i have the directory
but the problem is other now, i dont have wlan0
so when i :
if i use the eth0:
if i use sit0 :
Any idea?, any help will be apreciated

The driver is not loaded.

modprobe ndiswrapper again and list the loaded modules:
lsmod

i modprobe ndiswrapper, then typed lsmod:
At the top is ndiswrapper, so i think the module is corrent isn't it?, but im still not having wlan0, any idea?

This line seems to indicate that it's trying to do something:
rtl8180_24x 235116 1 (initializing)

I assume you have the proper Windows driver and the ndiswrapper is finding it, or you'd be seeing errors.

Check /var/log/messages to see what's happening with the RTL driver, maybe.

try ifup wlan0
and then you have to set all wireless parameters like SSID, channel and key, i guess its iwconfig and you can set all parameters and test you card

You don't have a wlan0 until you run the ndiswrapper -m command. This modifies your /etc/modprobe.conf file to conatin the line alias wlan0 ndiswrapper. However, sometimes the ndiswrapper -m command fails and you'll need to edit modprobe.conf by hand.

first off all, thanks to all for helping.
Now, for 2gnu:
Im using gentoo, is it possible that for gento is other the directory?, im just taking a wild guest.
for NiravKapadia:
well i dont have the comand, i should have it for default? or i have to install something?
For hangdog42:
What does this mean?, well evidently an error, bur what shoul i do, fix the "unresolverd symbols" or wirte the modprobe.conf by hand?. In any of the cases can u tell me how to do it?, im sorry but im really new to linux and im not so smart.
Any help will be apreciated

Well, since you appear to be using a 2.4 series kernel, modules.conf is the file that needs to be modified and it looks as if ndiswrapper -m did that. The modprobe.conf file is used in place of modules.conf when a 2.6 series kernel is used.

I'm assuming you're using a stock kernel, so I'm a little confused by the unresolved symbols. That usually happens when you haven't configured a kernel quite right. However, none of those errors look like they have anything to do with a wireless card. The sata errors could be a problem if you have a SATA hard disk drive and I have no idea what to make of the radio entry.

At any rate, first check your /etc/modules.conf file and make sure the ndiswrapper line is there. Then try removing then reloading the ndiswrapper module and see if that doesn't show you wlan0 in iwconfig.

well i check the "/etc/modules.conf" and i search as many times as i could even use the "where is" and i couldn't find wlan0 or ndiswrapper, so aparently thats why i dont have my wlan0. You said something about edit it by hand. Sure, but how?, i mean where do i have to put alias wlan0 ndiswrapper?
if u can plz give an detailed explanation :)

Well, you can edit it with pretty much any text editor. Gedit, Kedit, Kate, pico, vi......anything that can read and save text. As for where, I usually add things to the end of the file, and all you need to add is alias wlan0 ndiswrapper and that 0 is a zero, not a capital O. Then save the file and load the ndiswrapper module. By the way, you'll need to su to root in order to edit modules.conf and if you are working in a graphical environement, you may need to issue xhost localhost in order for root to be able to run a program.

ok ok, I open :
and at the end i added:
"alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" ,zero no capital O
Save the file, and wrote:
i think everythig goes ok until now right?, then i do this:
i think that is not a good thing right?, any way i tried again, and is still "wlan0, no such device"
Any idea?

/var/log/messages is a text file with the full path. Simply entering /var/log/messages implies that you're trying to execute it. List the contents like so:
less /var/log/messages

Page up or down, home, end or arrow keys to look through the file (the good stuff will be at the end - look through it for clues as to what's happening). Type the letter q to exit less.

Changing /etc/modules.conf or similar files simply accomplishes on boot what we're trying to do manually.

ifup is a script, commonly found in distros like Red Hat/Fedora/Mandrake. Try ifconfig wlan0 up, although that will not work unless & until the driver is loaded properly and I'm not convinced from what I've seen that it is.

As for finding things, as root, run the command updatedb. A database of every file on your system will be created and you can do a quick lookup with the command locate.

locate ndiswrapper should return all of the occurrences of files containing that string of characters. Pipe it to less if you get too many things to sort easily: locate ndiswrapper | less

first, i dont know why, but i don't have the directory "/var/log/messages", so i can't check there what is goin on.
then:
Im going to try that thing of searching the "ndiswrapper", but until now, do u have any other idea?