Help needed for a newbie!

06-10-2007	#1 (permalink)
LeeBuckley Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 30	Help needed for a newbie! Ok, who is feeling brave enough to give me instructions for getting my wireless to work!! I have a presario v2000 laptop with a 2wire940 wireless router that is connected to Telus internet provider. It is on the top of my many "jobs to do list" for the weeked and I am in need of some serious help!!

06-11-2007	#2 (permalink)
MikeTbob Trusted Penguin Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Panther City, Tx Posts: 4,039	Hiya LeeBuckley, Check this thread to get started, it's a pretty good howto for wireless cards. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...-new-post.html __________________ I do not respond to private messages asking for help. Please keep it on the forums only. Last edited by MikeTbob; 06-11-2007 at 10:45 PM.. Reason: typos

06-11-2007	#3 (permalink)
UCSDrake Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 5	thanks for that link!! I've been looking (apparently not that well) for something like that and its perfect!

06-18-2007	#4 (permalink)
LeeBuckley Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 30	thanks for the link. everything works fine, ndiswrapper works without errors. I can not find the drivers though. Can someone please help!!

06-18-2007	#5 (permalink)
UCSDrake Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 5	what distro are you using lee? and they may be in the SWsetup folder in your C drive (windows partition if you still have one)

06-18-2007	#6 (permalink)
LeeBuckley Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 30	I am using Debian. and I don't have a partion, I plunged in with both feet!! Last edited by devils casper; 06-18-2007 at 07:27 PM.. Reason: posts merged

06-19-2007	#7 (permalink)
LeeBuckley Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 30	I managed to locate the drivers and installed them. Now I am missing the device!! I read the help file and this says that it wasn't the correct .inf file. Any ideas?

06-19-2007

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LeeBuckley

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...SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME as I am rapidy losing the will to live!!

this where I am at

Code:

debian:/home/lee# ndiswrapper -i /lib/windrivers/bcmwl5.inf
installing bcmwl5 ...
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
debian:/home/lee# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:""  Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Invalid
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:1883-0566-6617-5193-8928-6723-50   Security mode:open
          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

sit0      no wireless extensions.

debian:/home/lee# ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
bcmwl5          driver installed (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
debian:/home/lee#

06-19-2007	#9 (permalink)
LeeBuckley Just Joined! Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 30	and the I get this when I try the next step of the "how to" Code: debian:/lib/windrivers# modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

06-19-2007

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MikeTbob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LeeBuckley

and the I get this when I try the next step of the "how to"

Code:

debian:/lib/windrivers# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

Try typing

Quote:

modinfo ndiswrapper

And see what you get. I think you need another package, if I remember correctly, you need modutils or something like that, If you have a working Ethernet connection ,use yum to locate it and install it.
yum search modutils
yum install modutils

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