On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Cyprian Troyer <c.r.troyer at usfamily.net> wrote: > *So, for months now, I've been content to use the USB connection to my > DSL router for my internet access. But I've set myself the goal of > getting my wireless card to work. I believe that native Linux drivers > are not available for this wireless card, so I've downloaded and > installed the latest version of ndiswrapper (version 1.53). I scrounged > up the Windows XP drivers for the wireless card and copied them to > etc/wlan/ . This is just an arbitrary directory I set up to make things > easy for myself. ndiswrapper is installed in the usr/ directory. > My first question is this : ndiswrapper -v returns - > > root at darkstar:/usr# ndiswrapper -v > modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper > module version is too old! > utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '0' > module details: > modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper > > You may need to upgrade driver and/or utils to latest versions available at > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net > > But this _is_ the most recent version available. What am I doing wrong? > > (According to wikipedia, the authors of ndiswrapper have not been > answering their mail since October, so I see no help coming from there. ) > > Next, the -l option indicates that the driver has been loaded; > > root at darkstar:/usr# ndiswrapper -l > net2g54l : driver installed > root at darkstar:/usr# > > > This command should also return the status of the device, that is, it > ought to also tell me that the hardware is installed, but obviously, > ndiswrapper thinks that it isn't installed. > That brings me to the next question. What do I need to be doing to > introduce the wireless card to the rest of my hardware? What utilities > can I be using to poke around the wireless card? The HAL daemon seems to > be working just fine for my USB memory and the USB LAN connection. > > This is all happening on my old Thinkpad 600, running Slackware 12.0. > > root at darkstar:/usr# uname -a > Linux darkstar 2.6.21.5 #2 Tue Jun 19 15:22:48 CDT 2007 i686 Pentium II > (Deschutes) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > > > Thanks in advance, > Cyprian. > > P.S. I can use this card from the Windows side of my dual boot setup > with no trouble. > * > > > --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html --- > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > Which wireless card is this? Anything useful show up from lspci/dmesg/syslog? Also, if you have a recent LiveCD (Knoppix/Ubuntu) it would be worth seeing if a slightly newer kernel is able to avoid using ndiswrapper completely. -- Donovan Niesen