I have some problems running my WiFi card under Fedora Core 2 (2.6.6 with 8k stack). The only driver I have for this card is for kernel 2.4.19/2.4.20 and it work very well under this configuration. Now I compiled kernel 2.6.6 with 8k stack and tried to use ndiswrapper to use my Windows drivers.
[root@troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: netdlwl present [root@troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# modprobe ndiswrapper
Dmesg show sth. like this:
ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded
ndiswrapper adding netdlwl.sys
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0d:88:58:b2:98 using driver netdlwl.sys
Everything seems ok, the driver seems to work (leds are blinking) but when I connect to Ad-Hoc network:
[root@troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# iwconfig wlan0 essid TroLoo [root@troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"TroLoo" Nickname:"troloo.laptop" Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412GHz Cell: 02:E0:82:5F:E1:94 Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3 RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
[root@troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:58:B2:98
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4284 (4.1 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Memory:18400000-18400024[root@troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
Network configuration looks ok (192.168.0.1 is my gateway) but I can't see any computers connected!
[root@troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# ping 192.168.0.1 PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable ...
As I was reading on ndiswrapper web page, it is not possible to scan for available networks - I can't check if my computer can see other ones. The problem is that even if I set some network, say 'test', on other computer with Windows I can't see it. What's wrong? Every help will be very appreciated :) I really don't want to use kernel 2.4.20 (it works much worse on my computer than 2.6.6).
-- Regards - TroLoo
