Re: FC5 issue with ndiswrapper



--- Gary Cobb <gecobb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Josh Coffman wrote:
<snip>
The kernel-devel rpm is on the distro. All I had
to
do was select the
development packages and it installed it for me.

kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64.rpm
are both on the install DVD.


</snip>
*** That's an x86_64 DVD, I used the i386 CD and it
was no where to be
found either on the FC5T3 or the FC5 GA distro.

Has anyone gotten NetworkManager or the network
gui
applet to recognize wlan0 usin ndiswrapper?

I can manage wlan0 fine in cli, but not the nice
gui
tools. So I think its not an ndiswrapper of
wireless-tools problem.


No. IMHO it is busted. It worked in FC4 and FC5T3,
but not in FC5.

I had to go to my FC4 partition and copy the files
in
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts manually into the FC5
partition. Then
everything worked like a charm. I don't know where
the responsibility
for creating these files lies.

I used to be able to 1) install and configure
ndiswrapper, 2) bring up
the interface from CLI, 3) run
system-config-network, 4) disable eth0 at
startup (just gets rid of a boot time "FAILED"
message), 5) configure
and enable wlan0 at startup, and 6) reboot. Not any
more :-(


I am able to use NetworkManager for it now, but I had
to add "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" in /etc/modprobe.conf
as other people have posted.

I'm not sure if is because of settings, but the
Network applet(system-config-network) doesn't seem to
be able to connect.

In FC4 I build ndiswrapper from source each time I
upgraded my kernel. This time I pulled ndiswrapper
from livna. I don't know if building from source would
work the same as in FC4; might have to try it.

For now, NetworkManager or iwconfig is functionable.


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