Re: Network Configurator doesn't recognize Ndiswrapper in FC5

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

Has anyone been able to get the Network Configuration GUI to handle a
wireless card that requires Ndiswrapper?. I've installed the livna
ndiswrapper rpm along with the XP driver for the Broadcom 802.11G card in
my Compaq R3000z. In earlier versions of FC I was able to configure the
card using the GUI but FC5's Network Configuration GUI doesn't see the
card. I have gotten the card to work by creating a script with Xemacs so
there is nothing wrong with ndiswrapper or the driver, it's strictly a GUI
issue. For future use it would be nice to be able to use the GUI so if
anyone knows if there is a way to get it to work I'd appreciate it.

Hmmm...... I installed from the source. It's not hard to do;

make distclean
make
make install

Not so sure if it is a GUI issue, I have the system-config-network packages
from FC5/6 (re-build from source) installed and the wireless
(ndiswrapper-1.14) interface is available;

$ rpm -qa 'system-config-network*'
system-config-network-1.3.30-2.1
system-config-network-tui-1.3.30-2.1


For the benefit of others here is how I hand configured the card,

Installed ndiswrapper from the livna respository.

The installed the driver,

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf

ndiswrapper -m

This wasn't sufficient to get ndiswrapper to automatically load. I had to
create the following file with Xemacs and did a chmod +x on it,

/etc/sysconfig/modules/wlan.modules
#!/bin/sh
modprobe ndiswrapper

The driver will then load on boot.

Yep, this is new due to udev and hal.......

Next I created a script to configure the interface. First I needed the
HWADDR for the card so I did an ifconfig wlan0. I then created

You do not really need the HWADDR value, my ifcfg-wlan0 for example;

IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=My_Computer_Name_Here
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=<removed>
KEY=<not shown>
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=Auto

You might want to add the DEVICE and TYPE lines to yours.


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