installing wireless card drivers

**UnderScore** · 11-01-2005, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by zx2max

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?

I'm not positive, but I believe Ndiswrapper is written to best use the WinXP drivers & not Win98 drivers. So try the WinXP drivers.

**zx2max** · 11-01-2005, 07:48 PM

thanks i'll give that a try.

**Blackbomb** · 11-01-2005, 08:37 PM

Yeah try a driver for Windows 2k or Xp....

**leonardo4it** · 11-01-2005, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by zx2max

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

I'm new to linux too but tonight I had been lucky...
with knoppix 4.0.2 (live cd) on a sony laptop without ndiswrapper

I ran iwconfig to see that eth1 was my interface wi-fi because I've got wireless extension...
knoppix@0[knoppix]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"USR9106"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:C0:49:5D:8D:43
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:50 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry

ff RTS thr

ff Fragment thr

ff
Power Management

ff
Link Quality=53/94 Signal level=-42 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

knoppix@0[knoppix]$

I had to set ESSID, Access Point and Key of encription with

su root
iwconfig eth1 essid USR9106 ap 00:C0:49:5D:8D:43 key s

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

with xxxxxxx that in ascii is your key (if enabled)

than (with the gateway already DHCP enabled) I ran from menu Network/Internet the Network card configuration (actually I don't remember if I tried it also with knoppix 3.7 o ubuntu 5.10...

so I run to try it)
and the system got his IP 192.168.1.2 and so on...

knoppix@0[knoppix]$ ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:9B:01:F8:22
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:9bff:fe01:f822/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11898 errors:95 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:95
TX packets:12284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:10432154 (9.9 MiB) TX bytes:1855399 (1.7 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Memory:e0ea0000-e0eb0000

ciao
leo

**zx2max** · 11-01-2005, 11:37 PM

i tried using the .inf file in the winxp drivers folder on the dlink cd but i think it is the same file no matter what version of windows. it has the same name in all folders and when i try it i get a msg that says its already installed. now when i do the dmesg i dont understand all the stuff it displays but at the end it says:

Code: Bad EIP Value <3> ndiswrapper (wrapperinit:1645): loadndiswrapper failed (11) check system log for messages from 'loadndiswrapper'

Ryan

**Blackbomb** · 11-02-2005, 02:42 AM

It seems as if that driver file isn't compatible w/ ndiswrapper. You'll have to do alittle googling to find a D-link driver that is compatible w/ your chipset and ndiswrapper. It's unfortunate that ndiswrapper doesn't support more drivers.

**zx2max** · 11-02-2005, 08:01 PM

i found something at http://www.linux-wlan.org/index.html but i am still trying to figure out how to install it.

**zx2max** · 11-02-2005, 08:13 PM

one of the steps during the installation asks for an alternate target install root directory on host. What should i enter for a directory?

**Blackbomb** · 11-02-2005, 09:19 PM

Is your card compatable with that software? I'm looking @ the FAQ and it lists

The following vendors are selling hardware using a similar design as the Intersil PRISM card. The following vendors have proven to have compatible hardware:

Zoom Telephonics
Intalk/Nokia
Samsung (Korea)
DDBTEL (Taiwan)
GemTek (Taiwan)
MELCO (Japan)
Bay Networks

If you have a card that is not supported by the Linux WLAN project, then you might want to check the Linux Wireless LAN HOWTO ( http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ ), where you can find a list of other known Linux WLAN drivers.

**codegirl269** · 11-03-2005, 05:21 AM

Hi,
I followed the instructions from previous posts to install my wireless card driver and I got it partly working. The driver gets installed successfully but the power led is on but the link led is dimmed. When I try to access a website with a mozilla it says its not found. I think I have the settings properly configured but I am not sure if I am missing anything. I specified the essid, key, channel, access point and mode but I still get this problem. Also, when i go to the control center and go to internet/network, wireless network, all of the options are greyed out and I can't do anything. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

codegirl269