On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 12:43 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 18:36 +0200, Martin Love wrote:
Hi All,
I have just bought a Linksys WPM54G for my existing SuSE 9.2 installation.
When I installed the card and switched on the PC for the first time suseplugger recognised the card and asked if I would like to configure it, which of course I tried, but it wasn't in the list of available cards.
So after many hours of searching Google and trying the options that I found, I finally sort of got it working.
Here is what I did :-
1. Use Synaptic to get ndiswrapper-tools 2. Get the windows drivers, and copy the .sys and .inf to somewhere (say /home/<yourusername>/Linksys/) 3. Open terminal, and enter the following commands: 3a. cd Linksys 3b. sudo ndiswrapper -i <name>.inf (mine was rt2500.inf) 3c. cd /etc/ndiswrapper/ 3d. sudo modprobe ndiswrapper 3e. sudo echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules 3f. sudo iwlist wlan0 scan (look for your access point in the list) 3g. sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel <X> essid <ESSID> mode Managed (the X and ESSID should come from the iwlist) 3h. sudo ifup wlan0
The above was found on :- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=5645
This seemed to work, sort of. When I rebooted, the card was not loaded automatically, so I used the following to enable the card :-
ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 channel X essid X mode Managed dhcpcd wlan0& (This command gave me an error, sorry can't remember what it was, but it seems to work)
My question is 2 fold.
1. Is there an easier way to do this as I have another couple of SuSE 9.2 boxes to install the wireless cards into.
2. How do I set it up so that I don't have to manually type the above 3 commands and that the wlan0 card is loaded at boot time.
Hello. I have a Linksys WPC11 v.4 card that initially gave me the same sort of trouble. I also use ndiswrapper on it. This is the pattern that I found would work for mine. ndiswrapper -i LSRTNDS.INF ndiswrapper -m modprobe ndiswrapper Now slap the card in, and it will be recognized by SuSE (as is the case even if you don't set up ndiswrapper first.) Be sure in Yast configuration for the card you go to Advanced .../Hardware Details and put in "ndiswrapper" for the module and "rt2500" in options. My card has been happily cranking along even since (with the additional joy of snubbing the Linksys tech support, who told me that the card positively absolutely would not work in Linux). Hope this Helps, Travis.