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jcs

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Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 29

[solved] wlan configuration (ndiswrapper)

Hey,

I've completed the base install and now I'm trying to get my wireless network running. I have a USB wireless card (d-link DWL-G122 revB) which won't function with rt2x00 drivers. I'm trying to use the d-link windows xp driver(.inf/.sys) with ndiswrapper. I'm using the same setup now for ubuntu.

I've already successfully installed the driver on arch.

ndiswrapper -l                  #shows the correct driver installed
iwconfig                            #shows wlan0
iwlist wlan0 scan              #shows a few networks, including mine with a signal strength of ~80

My network is using 64bit WEP ascii

Here are a few lines from my rc.conf:

MODULES=(ndiswrapper e100 mii via-rhine !rt2500usb !rt2x00lib !rt2x00usb snd-mixer-oss
snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)

wlan0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid mynetwork key s:mykey"
INTERFACES=(wlan0)

My network isn't connected on boot. There are no lights on my usb card. I can't ping anything: unknown host.

Thanks in advance, and If you need more information just ask.

Last edited by jcs (2008-10-09 07:47:21)

jcs

Member

Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 29

Re: [solved] wlan configuration (ndiswrapper)

I got it to work by using a netcfg2 profile.