ndiswrapper

[giant_toaster]

Hello again,

Still having problems getting my USB Belkin Wireless Adaptor working. I believe that i need to use ndiswrapper to get it to work. My USB Adaptor is listed in http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#B as working. It suggests using the *.inf and *.sys files installed in my windows install of it.

When I run the GUI version of ndiswrapper from the K menu, when I select the *.inf file it just disappears and seemingly does nothing.

If I run ndiswrapper in the Konsole the help for it says I need to type ndiswrapper -i infile.inf, so i type ndiswrapper -i /mnt/hda2/........../belkin/belkin wireless adaptor/myinfile.inf . when I do this it just acts as if i just typed ndiswrapper and brings up the list of switches you can use with ndiswrapper. when i type ndiswrapper -l to list installed drivers it says there are none, so it hasn't done anything!

What should I do?

Thanks very much!

[danielsan]

copy the .inf files locally, then try it.

[giant_toaster]

Copy locally? I am running of the live cd, where do you mean?

I have copied them into my windows c:\ drive to make the filepath shorter to type, but still nothing....

[giant_toaster]

Right, got it all working! I'm typing this from Kanotix... Yay!

I'm sure this will work in Knoppix as well, as they are very similar...

I ran ndiswrapper, it takes a while after clicking, but eventually it brings up a box saying wlan0 is working.

Then I ran wavelan to setup my connection.

Then I ran network card config to carry on setting it up

Then I went to the KDE control centre and set up the WEP key there.

On Kanotix, I took off the firewall to get it to work.

Thanks for all your help everybody!