Wireless Intel PCMIA Card 2011B - NDISWRAPPER

[neilbarlow24]

Hi guys

I am fairly new to Linux only really been using it a few weeks - so any help you can provide I would really really appreciate...

I am using slackware 10.0.

I have an Intel PCMIA 2011B Wireless Card (Model: WPC2011BWW) and would really like to get wireless on it. I have installed NDISWRAPPER and have gotten the required driver which I know works on Windows - on xp my card appears to be using netwlan5, but i also installed wl50nd5 for good measure. But I still cant get the card to come up - there is no flashing light and the interface is not there when I do an ifcong.

Please see my output from NDISWRAPPER and from the messages log shown below:

root@...:# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
netwlan5        driver present
wl50nd5 	driver present

Nov 28 13:53:07 nbarlow-slack kernel: ndiswrapper version 0.12 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
Nov 28 13:53:07 nbarlow-slack loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: loadall(415): couldn't load driver 'netwlan5'

Any help or assistance that anyone can provide would be very much appreaciated.

Thanks
NeilB

[Anglo]

did you follow everything in the guide?

after you install ndiswrapper, you have to modprobe ndiswrapper
and then some other stuff... did you do that?

[neilbarlow24]

I did and the necearry folders and files exist in the /etc/ndiswrapper directory

[xtc1980]

Hello,

I had the same problem in the end i stopped using the ndiswrapper and started to use the alternative systems from sourceforge.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2100/

That was more fiddle and mess initially but it works and you can easily tidy it up once your working.