Fedora 8 Wireless Problem

**waterhead** · 11-12-2008

You should try using DHCP to obtain an IP address. I don't know how to tell this driver to do that. Also, look at the output of dmesg for info and errors.

There was no guarantee that this is the correct driver for your wireless. If you don't want to spend any more time on this, then just use NDISwrapper. You should remove this driver then with the make uninstall command, issued from the same folder as the make install command.

**Huntsman191** · 11-13-2008

Im having some trouble installing Ndiswrapper. Firstly, i used:

Code:

make
make install

However i still couldnt get the ndiswrapper command to be recognised (unknown command error).
So i made an rpm using:

Code:

rpmbuild -ti ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz

Yet whenever i run the ndiswrapper command it doesnt work. What am i doing wrong here?

**waterhead** · 11-13-2008

You most likely need to include the path to NDISwrapper in the command. Since you don't know where it is, use this command to find it. I had to use sudo , but you may need to do su first.

Code:

find / -name ndiswrapper

Why didn't you use YUM to install NDISwrapper? I know Fedora 8 is geting old, but the Fedora repositories are still available.

**Huntsman191** · 11-13-2008

Ive managed to install the correct driver for my USB device:

Code:

netucg3n : driver installed
     device {0411:00E8} present

How can i configure it?

**waterhead** · 11-13-2008

Configure it via the "Network" selection found in the menu. Click on the wireless and select the "Edit" icon on top. Make sure that you check the box to allow NetworkManager to control the device. You may need to reboot to get everything working.

**Huntsman191** · 11-14-2008

It doesnt recognise my driver in Administration>Network. It still says 'Other Wireless Card". How can i get Fedora to recognise the card? and when i use iwconfig i get this:

Code:

lo     no wireless extensions

eth0    no wirelesss extensions

**waterhead** · 11-14-2008

Did you load the NDISwrapper module with the modprobe command?

Code:

modprobe ndiswrapper

**Huntsman191** · 11-14-2008

Yep.. i loaded it with modprobe.. well i used the command it just dropped me straight down to the next line...
does that mean the command was succesfull? and heres some more information i found in /var/log/messages:

Code:

Nov 13 21:50:05 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
Nov 13 21:50:05 localhost kernel: usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Nov 13 21:50:05 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper: driver netucg3n (BUFFALO INC.,08/08/2007, 1.20.00.0001) loaded
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost kernel: wlan0: ethernet device 00:1d:73:3d:5d:93 using NDIS driver: netucg3n, version: 0x0, NDIS version: 0x500, vendor: 'IEEE 802.11n Wireless Card.', 0411:00E8.F.conf
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost kernel: wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'ndiswrapper'.
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exporting device as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Device/3
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'wlan0'.
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device wlan0
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
Nov 13 21:50:06 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0) supplicant interface is now in state 2 (from 1).

**waterhead** · 11-15-2008

It looks as if there may be a switch to enable/disable the wireless, and it is in disabled mode. Post the output of this command:

Code:

lsmod

**Huntsman191** · 11-15-2008

The attachment is the output of lsmod:

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