The above pretty much says everything. Just bought the wireless card and the only thing it came w/ was an install CD for M$. Have consulted the ndiswrapper.sourceforge page and found the following...
"Card: [Quetec ASW2301 PCI Adapter|http://www.quetec.net/products/product.asp?id=2]
Chipset: [WavePlus 1200|http://www.waveplus.com/wp1200_wp1201.asp]
pciid: 17f7:0001 (rev 01)
Driver: Ndiswrapper 1.0rc4(or nightly build) [Originally|http://www.quework.com/Quetec_11b_PC...30.0_Setup.zip] but as this is an installer I have extracted the relevant files [here|http://f-box.org/~dan/files/wpndis51.rar] (I hope this doesn't break copyright!)
Other: Gentoo (kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9) running. The config I have it running with is [here|http://f-box.org/~dan/files/linux-2....-r9.config.txt] Help: I might be able to help you with config of this card drop me an email: dan_AT_f-box_org"
but the webpage f-box.org is not available so i can't get the wpndis51.rar files. i've also gone into the MCC and installed the ndis program, but have finally arrived at the end and don't know what else to do. Any ideas? Have a nice evening!

Hi exact same card but i did manage to get the files off the website mentioned and ndiswrapper accepted them and installed but I could find no new device listed for it. Certainly none of the current devices (eth0 or sit0) had any wireless extentions.

I'm going mad with this as there seems to be no information on it ANYWHERE. I'd rather not have to buy a new card but it's looking like the only way.

Know what? The driver is available as Madwifi. Arg! Actually when i upgraded from 10.1 to Mandriva 2006, the wireless card was listed. i clicked on it to install it from MCC and got an error msg. After about another two weeks of hacking, finally gave up and reinstalled my wired version which worked right away. Sigh. Maybe some day. Have a nice one!

So the driver should work woth madwifi? SOrry I don't fully uderstand you - what is madwifi - a collection of drivers? Sorry for being dense but do you mean it should work with madwifi or it's supposed to but doesn't?

I have the same problem as bonsonno. The drivers seem to install, but the hardware is never detected.

Yet the little green light blinks and the card is inserted.

A little more detail as to what exactly you've done would help a bit. I don't have experience installing this particular card, but I've used ndiswrapper quite a bit between my two laptops, and trying to get my Belkin MIMO desktop card to work. It sounds like, basically, you need to download this: http://www.quework.com/Quetec_11b_PC...30.0_Setup.zip , then extract it and find the relevant files (should be the "*.inf" and "*.sys" files). Now, open a terminal and, as root, run "ndiswrapper -i whateverthefileiscalled.inf" and see what, if any errors you get. If none, then type "ndiswrapper -l", it should say the name of your driver (whatever the .inf was called), and "driver present, hardware present". From there, follow the installation instructions at: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation . If you have errors or problems, post them back, and maybe someone can help you get it sorted.

edit added: Sometimes, the rpm version that comes with Mandriva doesn't work (or, being an older build, it's got a bug, so your driver installation screws up), so you might want to try installing the newest version from source.

I've got one of these cards too (the PCI version) but I seem to have made it a little further.

I took frazelle09's drivers (thanks man!!!), unzipped them, installed them with "ndiswrapper -i wpndis51.inf" and "ndiswrapper -l" shows "driver present, hardware present."

From there my first "modprobe ndiswrapper" inserted the module successfully but nothing new showed up with "iwconfig." I then tried "ndiswrapper -d 17f7:0001 wpndis51", did another modprobe and I now have a "wlan0" under iwconfig. In other words, everything seems to work up to here.

My problem is when I type (as root) "iwlist scan" or "iwlist wlan0 scanning" all I get is "No scan results." I know there are both open and keyed networks in the area because I can see them with my laptop (also using ndiswrapper but with a different card).

I've also tried setting up an Ad-Hoc network between my desktop and laptop but nothing has worked so far. I don't have much experience, though, with these networks so it might be as much me as the hardware not working right ; )

Any ideas on how to get the card to "see" other wireless devices?

Also, is it possibly the multi-function aspect of the card getting in the way? I wouldn't know any way of controlling or getting around this, but maybe someone else does...

In case anyone needs this...I'm running on Vector Linux 5.0 (basically Slackware) with their default 2.4.29 kernel. I'm also using their binary package for ndiswrapper-1.1_3.

My ndiswrapper shows that the driver is present, but the hardware still is "not present"

Any ideas?

You might want to try a different version of ndiswrapper, or a different driver. Some cards just won't work with ndiswrapper though. I have a Belkin MIMO "Pre N" card like that. The drivers install, the hardware is detected, the card can find my AP, but apparently it's got some DHCP issues, so it won't connect. Yours however is listed in their "known working" list, so you should be able to get it running using the driver and ndiswrapper version listed for your card.