Did you were able to enable WEP in your config ? Phil Jeff Ludwig <ludwig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello everyone... just got my wireless card working and took some good > notes I thought I would share with everyone... this little writeup is > also on my wiki, http://www.rockytop.net/tavi/index.php?page=WPC54G feel > free to make changes if I've missed something... > > This installation was performed on a Dell Inspiron 8000 running Fedora > Core 2 (linux 2.6.7-1.494.2.2) using ndiswrapper-0.9, but I hope the > procedure is general enough to be of some value to others. The first > step was to obtain the kernel source code, this was accomplished via yum: > > yum install kernel-sourcecode > > It turns out in several Fedora kernels there is a kernel option which > can cause problems, CONFIG_4KSTACKS. I recovered the kernel config by > issuing a "make oldconfig" then checked ".config" to make sure the > CONFIG_4KSTACKS option was not selected. For my particular choice of > kernel it was not, but if it is selected you will need to rebuild your > kernel. > > Next, download and unpack the ndiswrapper package and install the > utilities as root: "make; make install" > > Attempt to load your windows driver, for me "ndiswrapper -i > /mnt/cdrom/lsbcmnds.inf" did the trick. Issue a "ndiswrapper -l" and > make sure the program does recognize your card as present. Next, issue a > modprobe ndiswrapper to load the relevant kernel module and follow with > iwconfig to see if your card is present. > > So far so good, next I ran "gnome-network-preferences", selected the > configure option then setup a dummy wireless card on eth1 (pick any > wireless driver) but used the proper ESSID, channel number and gateway. > This should create the script > "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1". Copy this file to > "ifcfg-wlan0" and edit this file, changing the interface from eth1 to > wlan0 and modify any other details to match your system. At this point I > issued a "/sbin/ifup wlan0" and everything worked (after about 20 tries > of screwing with card settings). > > For load on startup, all I did was add one line to /etc/modprobe.conf: > "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" -- and somehow everything worked on next > startup. It seems to me the ifup command somehow instructs the system > which interfaces to load on startup as well as doing a host of other > things... Read the ndiswrapper "INSTALL" instructures, they are very > good altho I my /lib/modules/../build directory was *not* linked to the > kernel source. > > Cheers, > Jeff > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
