On Thursday 30 December 2004 5:27 pm, Richard wrote:
On Thursday 30 December 2004 06:59 pm, Scott Leighton wrote:
Not that I know of, what exactly is the problem with ndiswrapper? Works fine on my laptop here even with that boot message.
I go through all the steps to install it. It installs the drivers. I do ndiswrapper -l and it shows I have the bcmwl5 driver installed. I do modprobe ndiswrapper and that works as well. Then I do ifconfig and no wlan0 is found. I do ifconfig eth0 down and ifconfig wlan0 up but no wlan0. iwconfig does not show wlan0. Will show sit0 eth0 iwlist is installed, yet iwlist wlan0 scan will give me an error that there is no wlan0 around.
/etc/sysconfig/network/ contains ifcfg-wlan0 with all the correct settings.
Yast will setup the pcmcia card as it is supposed to but again, nothing when I do ifconfig wlan0 or iwconfig wlan0.
I look at the boot messages and I find it says Interface wlan0 is not available.
I have tried to go through the ndiswrapper stuff with another card, an airlink, and I have the same problem.
I can use the same cards on another laptop using the same ndiswrapper setup.
I'm stumped! Sure hope you can help. ra
Well, not sure I can help, but I am pretty sure that your boot msg issue is completely unrelated to your ndiswrapper issue. I had a devil of a time getting ndiswrapper to work on my laptop, took me literally months to solve it. In my case, the problem was that SuSE had left an old version of the module on my system and that was interfering with the later version I had downloaded and installed. First thing I would check for is multiple copies of ndiswrapper.ko on your system (assuming you have the locate util installed, do a locate ndiswrapper.ko). The other thing is check out the post in the forum here... http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=4327 I found it very helpful in getting mine to work. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.8-24.10-default x86_64