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rayzorblayde

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Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 67

wireless (modprobe?) problem

first some system info

uname -r
2.6.8.1

modprobe --version
module-init-tools version 3.0

cat /etc/modprobe.conf
#
# /etc/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
#

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

ls /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/misc/
ndiswrapper.ko

modprobe -v ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

Basically, I can't get my wireless to startup on boot and i think the last statement there is the problem.  I can get it to work manually by performing the following commands:

1. insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8.1/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
2. iwconfig wlan0 essid myessid
3. ifconfig wlan0 up
4. dhcpcd wlan0

and then it all works fine.  what i dont' understand is why insmod works, but modprobe doesn't, when the file is in the correct folder (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1/).  is there something i have to do to tell modprobe to refresh it's list or something?  any help is appreciated.  thanks!

ps. i did do many searches for this problem and found nothing, so if this has been asked already, i apologize.

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: wireless (modprobe?) problem

not sure what can be the problem ...

but i would try to run as root depmod -a ... just do make sure

then i would try to find out, what dmesg says more about your kernel and details of maybe-errors

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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: wireless (modprobe?) problem

the problem is definately depmod:
to everyone out there, if new external modules are installed, you should usually run depmod -a in order to rebuild a list of modules that the kernel can see, if you do not do this your new modules might not be seen

in addition, make sure you have a proper ndiswrapper driver... if you are in need, you can check my repo below (currently I am not aware of any problems with the ndiswrapper packages, but if you come across any, let me know)  the ndiswrapper package comes with a script for rc.conf... /etc/conf.d/ndiswrapper for your wireless settings and simply add the ndiswrapper daemon in your rc.conf BEFORE network... this way you could add wlan0="dhcp" and INTERFACES="wlan0" to start on boot

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rayzorblayde

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Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 67

Re: wireless (modprobe?) problem

cool, thanks everyone.

it works now... with the help from someone else's startup script in another thread, it's working just fine now.

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