Fedora 8 and Linksys WMP54G help

[melog625]

I'm trying to switch over to Linux right now, so I am new to how everything works. I am having trouble with my wireless card (WMP54G) in Fedora 8. I have used ndiswrapper and installed the driver from the disk, but I dont know where to go from here. Fedora 8 is on a dual boot set up with Windows XP, where the card works just fine.

Thanks for you patience in dealing with my Linux ignorance

[techieMoe]

Ok. You've installed the driver. You shouldn't have to do anything else. What method did you use to install the driver?

[melog625]

ndiswrapper -i /media/WMP54G/Drivers/bcmwl5.inf
from the disk
I used ndiswrapper -l to see what I had after and it displyed bcmwl5.inf

When I go to add another connection Fedora says that I have no wireless cards installed

[techieMoe]

ndiswrapper -i /media/WMP54G/Drivers/bcmwl5.inf
from the disk
I used ndiswrapper -l to see what I had after and it displyed bcmwl5.inf

When I go to add another connection Fedora says that I have no wireless cards installed

I'm not sure if this is strictly necessary, but after I do an install, I always write to the modules as well with:

ndiswrapper -ma
ndiswrapper -mi

Then reboot.

[melog625]

Thanks the card is working now!

[waterhead]

I think that the step that you missed was this:

modprobe ndiswrapper

This would load the module, it also was loaded after a reboot.

[valemon]

Post the output of

ndiswrapper -l
lsmod | grep ndiswrapper 
lsmod | grep b44
lsmod | grep ssb
iwconfig
lspci | grep Network

[melog625]

So I removed the driver from ndiswrapper and started over, here is the output of what happened:

[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -i /media/WMP54G/Drivers/bcmwl5.inf
installing bcmwl5 ...
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe ndiswrapper

****Rebooted the System****

[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: ssb)
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep b44
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep ssb
ssb 29893 1 b43
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep Network


I can't see the card when I go to add a network connection. Linux gives me the option for "Other wireless device" which is just a list of Ethernet drivers

[waterhead]

I thought that you said that it was working?

If it isn't working with ndiswapper, it most likely is because a native Linux driver is loading first, and grabbing control of the wireless. It says that the alternate driver is ssb. Take a look at this thread.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...tallation.html

Please post the entire output of this command

/sbin/lsmod

And this:

 /sbin/lspci -nn | grep Network

[melog625]

I followed the directions on the other thread (rmmod everything then modprobe it) and a wireless connection appeared with the device wlan0 as the connector. But there is no wlan0 on the hardware list of the network config, and when I try to activate the connection I get:

SIOCSIFLAG: No file or directory

Determning IP for wlan0...failed