Iwconfig doesn't find wlan0

[kbk]

I have a Linksys WUSB54G wireless network adapter. I have gotten it to work 4 other times, however, I just updated Mepis and I got all my drivers loaded with ndiswrapper, but when I try to configure the device, and type

iwconfig wlan0 essid my_essid

it says wlan0 isn't there. How do I get it to show up?

[AlexK]

are the drivers installed? have you done ndiswrapper -m & modprobe ndiswrapper?

[kbk]

I didn't do -m but I did modprobe. Yes the drivers are installed, I installed all of them taht have anything to do with my device, just in case (it worked before, so I know it should work now).

Edit: That didn't work. What now?

[AlexK]

hmm, this is strange. Look in the /etc/modprobe.d directory and is there a file called ndiswrapper there? If not, try creating a file called ndiswrapper with:

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

Other than that, I don't know what could be the problem. If that doesn't work, try starting again with ndiswrapper and see if that helps.

[kbk]

Starting again did help . However, I still can't get a connection. All my settings seem fine except I'm not sure if my IP address is right. I think the IP address for that computer and this one are different, and I don't know how to find out what that one is.

[AlexK]

Is the other computer running windows? if so just run the ipconfig command and you can find the ip address of that computer.

other than that, try pinging and see if you can see the other computer.