On Wednesday 15 December 2004 2:20 pm, Jan Elders wrote:
Hello,
Some time ago, I installed Ndiswrapper 0.12 on my SuSE 2.6.5-7.111.5-default in order to get my new SMC 2835W wireless LAN card working. (Ndiswrapper is needed because this version of the 2835W uses a Frisbee chip, for which there are no Linux drivers yet)
That worked fine .... for a few minutes and then my system "froze". I could not think of a particular reason for that to happen, but I suspected that maybe something was wrong in my kernel. So, I decided to install the latest 2.6.9 kernel from kernel.org. That went well and I could work with the card via ndiswrapper ....... for a while, after which also the 2.6.9 system "froze".
I am totally lost where to look for causes / clues. I don't see anything peculiar in my /var/log/messages, but maybe I'm overlooking something ?
Hi Jan. 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. 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. Also, make sure you disable your eth0 connection before actually turning up your wireless card: ifdown eth0 then run: modprobe ndiswrapper which will enable your card. 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. Hope that helps. -- Jake Sallee spark@breathdedeeply.com www.breathedeeply.com Registered Linux User #358012 http://counter.li.org