Help getting my Wireless NIC (wlan0) running. truckstop.net

Ok, I've been attempting to install my wireless NIC's windows driver using ndiswrapper with mixed results for days. I'm running the latest knoppix debian distro and I love it. Just wish I could get my wirelessB NIC going. It's a truckstop.net brand NIC.

The first time I attempted to load the windows drivers I did the Win98 driver .inf load using:

ndiswrapper -i neti2120

As you can see the driver is loaded into memory.

root@laptop:~# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
neti2120 driver present, hardware present

After this I ran:
modprobe ndiswrapper

and my wireless NIC started blinking constantly like it does in windows when its up and working. I then tried to configure my security WEP key using the KNOPPIX wavelan configuration utitily. I just skipped most the sections since I didn't know what the utility was asking for. The only sections I filled out were the SSID section and the WEP key. That utility didn't work in getting my NICs WEP key installed. I even tried typing ifconfig wlan0 up and that failed to bring up the NIC.

I then tried to manually type the security settings into my card config using:

root@laptop:/etc/ndiswrapper/neti2120# iwconfig wlan0 key "KEY"
root@laptop:/etc/ndiswrapper/neti2120# iwconfig wlan0 channel 10
root@laptop:/etc/ndiswrapper/neti2120# ifconfig wlan0 up

Failed to bring it up again. Now when I boot into windows I can't get the NIC to constantly blink like the first time I tried getting it working. However, now it can do a iwlist wlan0 scan and it sees my wireless network as shown below. BTW, I did jump onto someone elses network the first time the NIC got going but can't anymore.


Cell 03 - Address: 00:11:XX:XX:FC:1X
ESSID:"ROCCO"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-59 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

I've even tried to manually type my SSID and WEP key into a .conf file and that fails. If my wireless NIC can see my network and others using the iwlist cmd doesn't that mean I should be able to get it working? I already have this NIC's MAC addy added to my allowed MAC's on my router.

Here's my syslog:

Apr 20 08:38:06 laptop kernel: wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:04:db:00:d7:b1 using driver neti2120, configuration file 17FE:2120:17FE:2120.5.conf
Apr 20 08:38:06 laptop kernel: ndiswrapper (set_auth_mode:517): setting auth mode failed (C0010015)
Apr 20 08:38:06 laptop kernel: wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP
Apr 20 08:38:06 laptop kernel: ndiswrapper (set_essid:58): setting essid failed (00010003)

So, apparently it's loading the 17FE:2120:17FE:2120.5.conf file.. I don't remember which .conf file I added my stmts into but it wasn't this one. Can someone tell me what I should type into these fields for my wireless B (11Mbps) card on channel 10? And where I would add my WEP key line into this file? And do I add my wireless routers MAC into the mac_address? This very well might be my problem. Appreciate any/all help. TBH

root@laptop:/etc/ndiswrapper/neti2120# cat 17FE:2120:17FE:2120.5.conf
NdisVersion|0x50001
Environment|1
BusType|5
mac_address|XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
ndis_version|INPROCOMM,06/17/2003,2.19.06.2003

BssType|1
FragThreshold|2346
IbssBasicRateSet|15
IbssChannel|11
Rate|15
RtsThreshold|2347
Ssid|
networkaddress|


Also, iwconfig currently shows.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power:17 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:56/154 Noise level:0/154
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:615 Missed beacon:0