wlan0 not listed. Can't access the internet

doobers · 10-27-2004, 02:36 AM

I am using Yoper on a Dell Inspiron 8500 with a mini pci wireless card. I am trying to use ndiswrapper to connect wireleslly to the internet. I have added the driver successfully but iwconfig and ifconfig shows that there is no wlan0 listed. There is lo, dummy, eth0 which is the ethernet card and eth1 which says is unspecified. All say "no wireless config".
I have tried iwconfig wlan0 up etc but a message says no such device.
This works in Knoppix but not in Yoper. Any ideas PLEASE?

bathory · 10-27-2004, 03:30 AM

Check your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf (depending of kernel version) to see if you have a line like this:

Code:

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

doobers · 10-27-2004, 04:15 AM

Yes that line is in the modprobe file.

bathory · 10-27-2004, 04:44 AM

When you modprobe ndiswrapper, what does dmesg and /var/log/syslog say?

doobers · 10-27-2004, 05:10 AM

Thanks for your helpBoth dmesg and the log say ndiswrapper version 0.8 is loaded but its surrounded by loads of ndc: packet command error: error =0.5 {driveready seekcomplete errors} There's reference to pnp driver parport -pc has been registered but nothing about wlan

bathory · 10-27-2004, 07:27 AM

Have you added the windoze driver of your hardware?

Code:

modprobe -i driver.inf

before modprobing ndiswrapper

doobers · 10-27-2004, 08:40 AM

No I hadn't done modprobe -i bcmwl5a.inf. When I do I get "Fatal error bcmwl5a not found".

bathory · 10-29-2004, 01:50 AM

Find the windoze drivers for your card either on CD or by downloading then and use:

Code:

modprobe -i /path/to/drivers/somefile.inf

it's not necessary for the file to be called bcmwl5a.inf

doobers · 10-29-2004, 06:24 AM

I decided to reinstall yoper and then try ndiswrapper again. Wireless connection now working. I can't get theeth0 to work though but perhaps
u can't have everthing. I cant use the apt facility though as connection to yoper times out. Google etc loads immediately but not anything to do with
yoper's website. Thanks again