Hello zx2max,
Need more info:
What kind of card do you have?
What version of Knoppix are you using?
Is your card compatible w/ ndisloader?
i am trying to figure out how to get my internet to work. i am new to linux so please bare with me. knoppix doesnt recognize my wireless card. i have downloaded the program from linuxant website. i am trying to use the cd that came with the wireless card to install the drivers but i cant figure out how to access the cd drive. I am not familar with how to Mount a drive so if thats what i need to do, can someone pls give me directions. Or is there someway to access the drivers already instld on my computer for windows? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Hello zx2max,
Need more info:
What kind of card do you have?
What version of Knoppix are you using?
Is your card compatible w/ ndisloader?
I have a d-link dwl520+ wireless card and am running knoppix 4.0.2. I have tried downloading something for linux from dlinks website but have no idea how to install it. also, I tried downloading the installer from linuxant website but havent figured out how to use it in conjuction with the cd that came with my wireless card.
I think you best bet is getting a copy of windows drivers so you can use NDISWRAPPER.... Knoppix already has NDISWRAPPER installed... What you need is to download windows drivers extract them onto a USB drive or on a folder you can acces from knoppix... bring up a shell
Then as root type:
ndiswrapper -i ?????.INF (?????.INF being your inf file from your driver)
Now to verify type:
ndiswrapper -l
it should say hardware and drivers present if it does type:
ndiswrapper -m
this prepares the module for the kernel and adds the alias
now type:
modprobe ndiswrapper
Now it may stall it may give you an error... if it does try a different driver... Not all drivers work
Check dmesg
if both the module and the driver loaded you can continue w/ iwconfig.
Let me know
since i already had the drivers installed on windows for my internet connection, is there a folder I can check that would already have them or should i just just load up windows, download drivers from dlink to a folder then load knoppix and use ndiswrapper? Thanks
Yep,
I'm not sure where that would be in your case, but yes you can use the drivers already installed on you HD... w/ the cd handy you could just copy the contents of the cd to a folder on your HD then boot knoppix, and install the drivers that way...
thanks blackbomb you've been a lot of help. i will give it a try when i get home tonight.
ok so i gave this a quick try earlier when i was home on my lunch break. i did it with the ndiswrapper found under the knoppix menu. this way i was able to access my other cdrom drive that had the drivers cd in it. but when i found the .inf file on the cd, knoppix didnt recognize it as a valid .inf file.
I had that same problem... I had to use ndiswrapper from the konsole in order for it to work right...
ok so i had better luck using the konsole but yet again still problems in the end. i got up to the modprobe ndiswrapper then got error. i did the dmesg but i dont quite understand it. Blackbomb you had suggested i try a different driver. what do you mean by that. i chose the driver for win98 off my dlink cd because that is the version of windows i have. do you mean i try a driver for different version of windows?
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