Hello all. I'm stumped trying to load the ndiswrapper module on demand for wlan0. FC4 on a Pentium 4, kernel is 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4. Tried ndiswrapper -m and putting alias wlan0 ndiswrapper into the /etc/modprobe.conf, but it did not work: options ndiswrapper if_name=wlan%d alias wlan0 ndiswrapper The 'ndiswrapper -m' adds a file to /etc/modprobe.d, but according to the man pages, that one doesn't work if /etc/modprobe.conf is present (which on my machine is present, as said). To remedy, I tried to move modprobe.conf to modprobe.d, but that did not help. I expected that just adding the options and alias to modprobe.conf would help. I am doing a reinstall to a new hard disk on the same laptop, after a disk crash. In the old setup the on-demand loading worked as far as I can remember. The previous install was a while ago so I cannot say for sure, but I don't remember having to fiddle with the settings much further than just running 'ndiswrapper -m' after the driver was installed. For the record, loading ndiswrapper manually works, and I can use wlan0, for instance with the help of NetworkManager. Also note that I use a stock kernel, and not a 8k-stack variety, as my network card seems to work fine without it. Could it have affected the autoloading? Advice appreciated, or at least a pointer to how I can turn on some debugging output to see what in fact is going on. Right now, no messages appear in system logs that would point towards the solution. Thanks, f
