Wireless network with BT voyager 1055

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# ndiswrapper -i /media/hda2/drivers/btvr1055/bcmrndis.inf

So you already copied the .sys file in the /media/hda2/drivers/btvr1055 directory. Right?

Yes. The contents of this directory are as follows:
bcmrndis.inf
rndismp.sys
usb8023.sys
rndismpk.sys
usb8023k.sys

# cp /media/hda2/drivers/btvr1055/*.sys /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmrndis
- for some reason it fails to copy the sys files. I found this out on another forum and copy them by hand

You should not need to do this. By the time you run

ndiswrapper -i bcmrndis.inf

The related .sys file specified in your bcmrndis.inf will be copied by the ndiswrapper. If it is not copied, something is wrong.

I realise that something is wrong! I don't know how to find out any more diagnostics. I can't locate the post in all my "millions" of bookmarks on the subject but I definately recall seeing a post that said the only problem the poster had had was copying these files.

# ndiswrapper -l
bcmrndis: driver installed
device (XXXX:XXXX) present
- sorry, forgot to note down these numbers!

Looks like it wraps the driver already. Can you show us the exact output?

The numbers are 1690:0715.

# depmod -a
- recommended by the ndiswrapper homepage

I don't need to do this, but it should not be harmful to run this.

Ok. As I said the ndiswrapper page suggests this. I thought maybe some module ndiswrapper needed might not have loaded otherwise.

# modprobe ndiswrapper

And this is where I get stuck. The light remains resolutely off on the adaptor and dmesg | grep ndis only tells me that ndiswrapper has been loaded - nothing about loading the actual driver for the adaptor, so no wlan0 appears.

These are the exact same driver files it uses under XP - I copied them to my drivers/btvr1055 directory to make it easy to remember where they are located.

(PS I can't use KDE as I don't have enough RAM)

Here is what I got when I run "dmesg | grep ndis" from my machine

ndiswrapper version 1.32 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver oem0 (Broadcom,11/27/2004, 3.100.35.0) loaded
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 18
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'eth1'

Can you show us your output?

ndiswrapper version 1.32 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

I've tried looking at the last 20 lines of dmesg too and there is nothing relevant (I can post the whole dmesg to you if you want.....

PS. Using which x-window manager should not be a problem to setup the wireless hardware. I tried to run knoppix in console mode also can activate the wireless card (i.e. boot: knoppix 3)

Rgds,
Chip

I know that but I've had replies where the poster is using WM specific tools which I don't have available because I can't (or in the past won't) run that WM. I'm not a newbie - just a little out of date![/code]