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| Author: | histoplasmosis [ Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Ndiswrapper and R5B7 issue resolved! |
Alright I had an old version of knoppmyth installed and wanted to update to r5b7 but I had some severe issues with ndiswrapper 1.7 and my wireless pci card working. This is what I did below to fix it. Did a fresh install of r5b7 after it was completed and booted into X sitting there waiting for a root password I ctrl+alt+f1 to bring up a virtual console so I could get my network card working before the install script finished. Logged in as root and: I removed everything ndis related by Code: apt-get remove ndiswrapper-module-2.6.15-chw-2 apt-get remove ndiswrapper-utils On another machine I then downloaded the ndiswrapper source from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Burned the tar.gz to a cd then mounted the cd on the knoppmyth box with the following commmands and installed it Code: mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom cd /usr/local/src tar xvzf /cdrom/ndiswrapper-1.12.tar.gz cd ndiswrapper-1.12.tar.gz make uninstall make make install eject Now I had the newest stable version of ndiswrapper installed on the knoppmyth box. I then mounted my netcards driver cd because the ndiswrapper list said to use these you can consult it at the following link for directions on your specific card: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/medi ... x.php/List Code: mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
cd /cdrom ndiswrapper -i BCMWL5.INF -------- Note this is the name of my netcard driver yours will be different ndiswrapper -l --------- to make sure it worked it reported driver and hardware present modprobe ndiswrapper ------ it then loaded my driver with out errors iwconfig --------- wlan0 was now showing up and was happy I then ctrl+alt+f7 to switch back to X windows and finish the installation scripts steps. Hopefully I didn't make any errors on this post. I'm doing this from memory and hopefully its in the right place. My belkin wireless G desktop adapter now works with the newest knoppmyth and all is happy. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:53 pm ] |
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Could you add a note to the R5B7 install hints thread with a pointer to this? Thanks. |
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| Author: | scopeuk [ Sat May 06, 2006 2:15 pm ] |
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i belive the cd line should ommit the .tar.gz extension as it should be a directory to make it Code: mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
cd /usr/local/src tar xvzf /cdrom/ndiswrapper-1.12.tar.gz cd ndiswrapper-1.12 make uninstall make make install eject |
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| Author: | parkinpants [ Thu May 18, 2006 1:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | symptoms? |
what were the "problems" that you were experiencing to inspire you to make theses changes? i have forever had problems with my wifi and ndiswrapper, i believe the source of the problem is some sort of IRQ conflict with my tv card, every version of ndiswrapper seems to treat differently though |
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