Help needed for a newbie!

[LeeBuckley]

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!!

[MikeTbob]

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

[UCSDrake]

thanks for that link!! I've been looking (apparently not that well) for something like that and its perfect!

[LeeBuckley]

thanks for the link.

everything works fine, ndiswrapper works without errors.

I can not find the drivers though. Can someone please help!!

[UCSDrake]

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)

[LeeBuckley]

I am using Debian.

and I don't have a partion, I plunged in with both feet!!

[LeeBuckley]

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?

[LeeBuckley]

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

this where I am at

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#

[LeeBuckley]

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

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

[MikeTbob]

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

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

Try typing

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