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[Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:37 AM 6/1/2006 +0200, Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>-- 
>>Ken Schneider
>>UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998
>
>It worked! Thanks. As stated in a previous message, the complete -i line
is ndiswrapper -i LSTINDS.INF.Once I've added ndiswrapper to
MODULES_LOAD_ON_BOOT, the power led greened at boot time.
> 
>Now, the iwconfig output looks like this:
> 
>--
>citlali:~ # iwconfig
>lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
>eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
>wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:10 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
>          RTS thr:4096 B   Fragment thr:4096 B
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
>sit0      no wireless extensions.
> 
>citlali:~ #
>--
>
>Thus I have added the network card by using YaST>Network Devices>Network
Cards>Traditional Method with ifup>Add and choosing new Wireless PCMCIA
card. After restarting the computer, power led is green at startup, but it
seems that no wireless link is established.
>
>After adding the PCMCIA wireless card, the iwconfig output is not exactly
the same: no access point is associated with wlan0, but a nichname appears
>
>--
>citlali:~ # iwconfig
>lo        no wireless extensions.
>
>eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
>wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"citlali"
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:10 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
>          RTS thr=4096 B   Fragment thr=4096 B
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
>sit0      no wireless extensions.
>
>citlali:~ #
>--
>
>Please, how could I debug/solve this issue?
>
>Once again, thanks for your help,
>
>Ricardo
>
>
>--
>Ricardo Rodríguez
>XEN, Resources Management


You say "it worked", but then you say it doesn't work.
I have broadcom ethernet on the mobo, and email doesn't
work from Linux 10.0, but I went to the ndiswrapper site
from Google, and I don't understand a damn thing there,
so you probably have the same problem.  You have to
recompile the kernel--a real show-stopper there, I 
think--and find a windows driver (good luck) and all
kinds of other esoteric things.  I'm not an IT person,
I'm a retired RF engineer, and I can't deal with this
stuff, and now I see that Novel is taking even the
existing drivers out of Linux, so you'll have nothing.
I'm totally disgusted!  

--dm


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