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#1 2005-06-28 19:45:31

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Wireless Troubles

I just recently switched Arch from my other computer to my main one, which has a Linksys Wireless-G Adapter on it. (WMP54G) I've followed some instructions to get the drivers installed with ndiswrapper, however when I run the command:

#iwconfig wlan0

it gives:

wlan0 No such device

How can I get this working?

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#2 2005-06-28 19:51:11

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Re: Wireless Troubles

you need to run "ndiswrapper -m" and then "modprobe ndiswrapper" as root

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#3 2005-06-28 19:58:27

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Re: Wireless Troubles

I've done that already, still the same result  :cry:

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#4 2005-06-28 20:01:45

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Re: Wireless Troubles

is ndiswrapper loaded properly in the kernel?

lsmod    would give you the answer to that

next, is the driver correctly loaded?

ndiswrapper -l   (small L) would give you
$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5  driver present, hardware present

http://www.linuxportalen.com  -> Linux Help portal for Linux and ArchLinux (in swedish)

Dell Inspiron 8500
Kernel 2.6.14-archck1  (selfcompiled)
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#5 2005-06-28 20:07:48

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Re: Wireless Troubles

also, after modprobing, check "dmesg | tail" for error messages....

Cybertron: you have a card that works with bcmwl5? Mine bombs with 5.... I need to use bcmwl5a (part of the me driver)

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#6 2005-06-28 20:17:09

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Re: Wireless Troubles

phrakture: yes, my card workes flawless with bcmwl5, it is a Dell truemobile 1300 (or to be exact it is an broadcom 9xxxxx something)...


http://www.linuxportalen.com  -> Linux Help portal for Linux and ArchLinux (in swedish)

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#7 2005-06-28 20:29:01

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Re: Wireless Troubles

CyberTron wrote:

or to be exact it is an broadcom 9xxxxx something

hahaha, mine is *exactly* a broadcom something-or-other  lol  lol

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#8 2005-06-28 20:31:48

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Re: Wireless Troubles

On lsmod:

ndiswrapper 173368 0

Is that normal?

Edit:

Ah on ndiswrapper -l it says the driver is present, but it doesn't say harware is present.  Could that be the problem?

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#9 2005-06-28 20:34:22

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Re: Wireless Troubles

Phrakture: then we got something more than arch in common big_smile  we got ourself a broadcom *this is not a very good card that does not support linux in other ways than ndiswrapper* something big_smile

OCNubStylee; Yes that is a problem...is the card a card that you can turn off in any way? like on my laptop I can press a button to turn wireless on/off


http://www.linuxportalen.com  -> Linux Help portal for Linux and ArchLinux (in swedish)

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#10 2005-06-28 20:36:56

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Re: Wireless Troubles

OCNubStylee wrote:

Ah on ndiswrapper -l it says the driver is present, but it doesn't say harware is present.  Could that be the problem?

yup... what card do you have? and what driver are you using?

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#11 2005-06-28 20:42:31

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Re: Wireless Troubles

Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adapter (WMP54G)
The driver is BCMWL5

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#12 2005-06-28 20:43:50

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Re: Wireless Troubles

try the 5A version (should be another inf file in the same package)

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#13 2005-06-28 20:52:21

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Re: Wireless Troubles

I don't see them in the same package.  Where'd you get your drivers from?

Edit:

nevermind, ndiswrapper sees it, and iwconfig wlan0 works.  Where do I go from here?

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#14 2005-06-28 21:30:17

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Re: Wireless Troubles

as a quick manual way to do it:

modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid "MyRandomEssid"
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0
*or*
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.13 netmask 255.255.255.0

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