Re: [SLE] new at wireless configuration




Ken Schneider<suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 31/5/2006 18:04 >>>
But that is exactly what you need to do, install the "windows" driver
using ndiswrapper for the linksys card to work. There are no native
drivers in 10.1 (nor 10.0).

As root:

ndiswrapper -i <driver>.inf (found on the CD)
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -l (should show the installed driver)

I would also add ndiswrapper to the MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="" line
in /etc/sysconfig/kernel to have the driver loaded during boot.

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Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Thanks, Ken,

As for the "windows" driver installation.

I've download a driver's file listed in the wiki, ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wpc54gv2_driver_utility_v2.02.zip. It includes two *.inf files. Once of them with "$Chicago$" in the Signature within [version]. I'm guessing this is the right one and that bcmwl5.sys is the right *.sys file.

Once I've copied both files to the Linux box, I've done...

ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf

Both it seems that something gone wrong. Here some outputs...

citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
lsbcmnds invalid driver!
citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ls
bcmwl5.sys lsbcmnds.inf
citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf
lsbcmnds is already installed. Use -e to remove it
citlali:~/Desktop/linksys # ndiswrapper -e lsbcmnds.inf
Driver lsbcmnds.inf is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers
citlali:~/Desktop/linksys #

Pleae, what where am I wrong? Thanks!!!

Best,

Ricardo



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Ricardo Rodríguez
XEN, Resources Management


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