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Re: [SLE] new at wireless configuration
- From: Ken Schneider <suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 23:41:55 -0400
- Message-id: <1149133315.26411.53.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 18:48 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
> >>> Ken Schneider<suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 31/5/2006 18:04 >>>
> >But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver
> >using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native
> >drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0).
>
> >As root:
> >
> >ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD)
> >ndiswrapper -m
> >modprobe ndiswrapper
> >ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver)
> >
> >I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line
> >in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot.
> >
> Thanks, Ken,
>
> As for the "windows" driver installation.
>
> I've download a driver's file listed in the wiki, ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wpc54gv2_driver_utility_v2.02.zip. It includes two *.inf files. Once of them with "$Chicago$" in the Signature within [version]. I'm guessing this is the right one and that bcmwl5.sys is the right *.sys file.
>
> Once I've copied both files to the Linux box, I've done...
>
> ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf
>
> Both it seems that something gone wrong. Here some outputs...
>
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -l
> Installed drivers:
> lsbcmnds invalid driver!
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ls
> bcmwl5.sys lsbcmnds.inf
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf
> lsbcmnds is already installed. Use -e to remove it
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -e lsbcmnds.inf
> Driver lsbcmnds.inf is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys #
>
> Please, what where am I wrong? Thanks!!!
>
You used the wrong driver name, leave off the ".inf" when removing the
driver.
I used the CD that came with my WPC54G card and am having no problems
with it. Do you trust that _all_ of the required files were in the zip
file? It also states it is Ver. 2, is that the version of your card?
--
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> >>> Ken Schneider<suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 31/5/2006 18:04 >>>
> >But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver
> >using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native
> >drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0).
>
> >As root:
> >
> >ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD)
> >ndiswrapper -m
> >modprobe ndiswrapper
> >ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver)
> >
> >I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line
> >in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot.
> >
> Thanks, Ken,
>
> As for the "windows" driver installation.
>
> I've download a driver's file listed in the wiki, ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wpc54gv2_driver_utility_v2.02.zip. It includes two *.inf files. Once of them with "$Chicago$" in the Signature within [version]. I'm guessing this is the right one and that bcmwl5.sys is the right *.sys file.
>
> Once I've copied both files to the Linux box, I've done...
>
> ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf
>
> Both it seems that something gone wrong. Here some outputs...
>
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -l
> Installed drivers:
> lsbcmnds invalid driver!
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ls
> bcmwl5.sys lsbcmnds.inf
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf
> lsbcmnds is already installed. Use -e to remove it
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -e lsbcmnds.inf
> Driver lsbcmnds.inf is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers
> citlali:~/Desktop/linksys #
>
> Please, what where am I wrong? Thanks!!!
>
You used the wrong driver name, leave off the ".inf" when removing the
driver.
I used the CD that came with my WPC54G card and am having no problems
with it. Do you trust that _all_ of the required files were in the zip
file? It also states it is Ver. 2, is that the version of your card?
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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