I have a Dell branded card and this used to happen to me also. One thing you need to check is that your ifcfg-wlan0 file in /etc/sysconfig/network is properly configured. Yes, it is, as far as I can tell.
If you run the wireless configuration utility in Yast, it will actually fill in all the values for you that you will need in that file. Nevertheless I did this too (again), and the stupid YaST thinks that the
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 21:38, Jake Sallee wrote: prism54 driver is required. It isn't ! This card does not have the prism chip. So, I had to disable the prism54 driver, which certainly will not work.
Also, make sure you disable your eth0 connection before actually turning up your wireless card:
ifdown eth0
I sure did.
then run: modprobe ndiswrapper which will enable your card.
Yes, that works fine, for about 10 minutes. The card is functioning well. And then suddenly the system freezes (again).
If that doesn't work, I would try searching your entire hard drive for *ndiswrapper* and remove any file you find. Then reinstall ndiswrapper from scratch.
Did you download your windows drivers from the known list of drivers on the ndiswrapper sourceforge page or did you download drivers from your manufacturer? I've noticed the drivers they list on sourceforge works better.
Yes, I downloaded the driver via sourceforge (which referred me to the manufacturer, so effectively I downloaded the latest driver from the manufacturer) Bottomline question still : where to look for causes of the freeze - after appr. 10 minutes of good operation ? Cheers, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"