can't find a solution

[bnei]

I'm trying to get my wlan to work using ndiswrapper and I have followed the guide here on linuxforums, and made it through every step until

Hajo:/wlan# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

I have found lots of information about this problems in forums and every forum tells me that I need both ndis-utils and ndis-modules, however, the ndis-modules doesn't exist in my world.

Hajo:/wlan# apt-cache search ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-common - Common scripts required to use the utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-source - Source for the ndiswrapper linux kernel module
ndiswrapper-utils - Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 - Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 - Userspace utilities for the ndiswrapper linux kernel module

I have the source, utils, common and I tried with utils-1.9 (because it had the word module in the description :P ) but still nothing.

Hajo:/wlan# ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
w29n51          driver installed, hardware (8086:4224) present

so the utils part of ndiswrapper seems to be working fine, but I can't get modprobe to notice ndiswrapper and I don't know where I can found this modules.

I'm using Debian Etch and I have the kernel-headers and the kernel-source but still no luck.

I'm getting kind of frustrated and would love to get some help with this little problem that I have.

Any ideas?

[tpl]

the name 'ndiswrapper' refers to both a user
executible--that "ndiswrappeer -l" is it--and a
loadable kernel module: you have the 1st, but not
the second.

go back to get

> ndiswrapper-source - Source for the ndiswrapper
> linux kernel module

and install that. Maybe you'll have to compile it, no
problem given you have the kernel source installed

[bnei]

the name 'ndiswrapper' refers to both a user
executible--that "ndiswrappeer -l" is it--and a
loadable kernel module: you have the 1st, but not
the second.

go back to get

> ndiswrapper-source - Source for the ndiswrapper
> linux kernel module

and install that. Maybe you'll have to compile it, no
problem given you have the kernel source installed

Thank you for that!

But I tried using the module-assistant instead, I installed ndiswrapper modules and tried to do

modprobe ndiswrapper

after I installed the driver, and the system rebooted.

What have I done wrong if modprobe makes my system crash?

[iwanabeguru]

download the ndiswrapper source and compile it
download
untar
cd /ndiswrapper_directory
./configure
make
make install

its not clean , but it's maybe work

[bnei]

download the ndiswrapper source and compile it
download
untar
cd /ndiswrapper_directory
./configure
make
make install

its not clean , but it's maybe work

Thank you for your advice, but it doesn't work for me. I have downloaded different sources and headers for the kernel, via the packet manager and via kernel.org and tried different things. Now I don't now where the trouble is and therefore I will reinstall my system and try again.

If I have a clean system, is it enough to use the module-assistant and check ndiswrapper and let the program install the modules automatically? Or do I still need ndiswrapper source and compiling and so fourth? It should not be that hard according to me.

[Vergil83]

If you are using module-assistant you don't need to download anything (module-assis will do it)

[bnei]

Ok, I finally reinstalled my entire system, but when I do

> modprobe ndiswrapper

the system reboots and

> iwlist scan

tells me that eth0 and eth1 doesn't support scanning so it hasn't worked and now I really need help if i'm going to keep using debian

I have gotten the wireless network to work using the ipw2200 driver but that was the hardest thing I have ever installed on a computer so I will not try that again if I don't have to. Ndiswrapper seems so much easier to install.

Ok, here is what I have done.

I ran debian etch live cd and choose to install basic system and laptop environment. After that I downloaded my old xorg.conf file which from my experince works fine.

I ran

> apt-get install 915resolution

and edited /etc/default/915resolution to give me widescreen

After that I did the following.

> apt-get clean
> apt-get autoclean
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get install x-window-system-core gdm gnome

This gave me the 2.6.18-3-686 kernel

Then

> apt-get install module-assistant

Now I started module-assistant and updated the cached package information and choose "prepare" to configure my system to compile modules. Then I choose "select" followed by ndiswrapper. I pressed enter on "get" and then "build" when I got the error

can't find the kernel sources, unable to compile

so I did

> uname -r
 2.6.18-3-686

followed by

> apt-get install linux-headers-'uname -r'

and then I repeated my process in module-assistant and ndiswrapper got compiled and the module installed, and I gave module-assistant permission to run "apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils" which appearently is needed.

Now I figured that ndiswrapper is correctly installed so I continued with

> cd /wlan/ <- the map where my .inf and .sys files are placed

> ndiswrapper -i w29n51.inf <- this is the driver that the xp-version I have installed is using so it's the correct driver

> ndiswrapper -l
w29n51           driver installed, hardware present (alternate driver: ipw2200)

> ndiswrapper -m
creating alias...

> modprobe ndiswrapper
and my screen goes blank and the system reboots.

I reinstalled my system about one hour ago and this is all the steps that I have made (except editing my /boot/grub/menu.lst to set vga=791 to the bootloader).

It didn't work even though I removed everything weard I had before and tried it with a clean system, can someone please try to help me!? What can I do?

I'm using Debian etch on a Latitude x1.

[antidrugue]

I have gotten the wireless network to work using the ipw2200 driver

That's it, don't bother using NDISWRAPPER with this card.

The IPW2200 driver is already present in the Linux Kernel. You simply need to extract the IPW2200 firmware.

You can do it like that :

1) Download version 3.0 of IPW2200 firmware from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
2) extract the download file and copy the resulting .fw files in /lib/firmware/

That's all there is to it.

[bnei]

That's it, don't bother using NDISWRAPPER with this card.

The IPW2200 driver is already present in the Linux Kernel. You simply need to extract the IPW2200 firmware.

You can do it like that :

1) Download version 3.0 of IPW2200 firmware from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
2) extract the .fw files in /lib/firmware/

That's all there is to it.

Ok, I was expecting an answer with the word "ipw2200" in it , and as I mentioned, it was one of the hardest thing I have ever done. I had to recompile the kernel and a lot of stuff that could go wrong for a rookie debian guy like myself.
But if it is as you say, that I only have to do thoose 2 steps, then I will go at it right away and forget about ndiswrapper.

Thank you so much, it's not the first time you help me through the mystery of debian

[antidrugue]

Ok, I was expecting an answer with the word "ipw2200" in it , and as I mentioned, it was one of the hardest thing I have ever done. I had to recompile the kernel and a lot of stuff that could go wrong for a rookie debian guy like myself.

Starting with kernel 2.6.14, the IPW2200 driver is included. As for kernel 2.6.18, it includes ipw2200 driver version 1.1.1, so you need to use firmware version 3.0.

I explained it in a bit more details in this thread :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...-2-6-17-a.html

But if it is as you say, that I only have to do thoose 2 steps, then I will go at it right away and forget about ndiswrapper.

At least that's how I do it.