lucky13
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Posted: Jan. 29 2008,18:05 |
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| Quote | | I have tried using ndiswrapper to get a standard wireless network card to run. |
Heh, is there a such thing as standard wireless card? Check the wifi cards page on the wiki. Check the ndiswrapper site and see if your card is compatible. You didn't say which card or version, or which chip it uses (usually says when you do lspci).
| Quote | | I need a clear step by step instruction to help me |
Presuming you copied the inf and sys files from your CD or from the zip you found on your card vendor's site and that your device node is wlan0 and you use dhcp...
1. Got root? sudo su
2. Make sure you don't have anything loaded for ndiswrapper: ndiswrapper -l
That will show if you have any drivers loaded and list hardware if there is a driver loaded.
3. Load your inf: ndiswrapper -i /path/to/your.inf
4. Repeat 2 to see that it loaded.
5. If it did: modprobe ndiswrapper
6. Config wifi: iwconfig wlan0 essid whatever
7. Check iwconfig to make sure the settings are correct. Change if needed.
8. Start dhcp: pump -i wlan0
You can automate a lot of this by using the ndiswrapper tool in the setup menu and setting up scripts (myndis) so you don't have to go through the process every time. Not all cards are equally supported via ndiswrapper so you may have a lot of success (hopefully) or limited success. If you use WEP or WPA, you'll need to set your keys up as well.
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