HOWTO: Ndiswrapper Wireless Setup

Jondale · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 4

For those that were having trouble getting this to work with the 2.6+ kernels, I was able to get it to work for the first time with the CVS copy of ndiswrapper from last night (2/7/04).

To obtain it do the following:

recoco.zhang · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 53

goood...Thanks a lot!

Wishmaster · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:30 am Post subject:

Thanks for the great guide! It was very useful!

Now my Broadcom 4320 (Dell Truemobile 1300) in my Inspiron 8600 works, altough i was not able to test network communication yet

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But if i try to initialize it on boot, i got the failure mentioned above:

theorange · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

Noob question, but I hope someone has come accross it. In any event, your replies will make it easier for other people..

from typing 'make install' in ~/ndiswrapper/

bash-2.05b# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/ndiswrapper/driver'
gcc -DTEST_PM -DLINUX -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I/lib/modules/2.4.22-gentoo-r5/build/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -O2 -c -o wrapper.o wrapper.c
wrapper.c:1126: variable `ndis_ethtool_ops' has initializer but incomplete type
wrapper.c:1127: unknown field `get_link' specified in initializer
wrapper.c:1127: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
wrapper.c:1127: warning: (near initialization for `ndis_ethtool_ops')
wrapper.c: In function `setup_dev':
wrapper.c:1613: structure has no member named `ethtool_ops'
wrapper.c: At top level:
wrapper.c:1126: storage size of `ndis_ethtool_ops' isn't known
make[1]: *** [wrapper.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ndiswrapper/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2
bash-2.05b#

Checked my kernel config, smp is disabled, wireless is enabled. Everything is current and the howto is followed to the letter.

Any help is much appreciated.

EDIT: This btw, is a toshiba tecra s1, with a centrino chipset.
Linux delta 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 #1 Wed Feb 4 18:40:45 PST i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

ShallowCorporateRaider · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject:

I am still getting the errors on startup, even after I tried changing the alias as Psyeye suggested. Here are the errors:

Jondale · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 4

ShallowCorporateRaider · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject:

Can no one shed any light on my dependency errors? Please? I can live with manually starting up the wlan0, but the anal retentive part of me cringes whenever it sees boot errors.
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CharlieS · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:39 am Post subject:

Are the G based cards actually running at 54MB/s or what?? they working to full capabilities is what i'm asking..

deadMofo · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 11

deadMofo · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 11

I have a WPC54g card, and it now (sorta) works thanks to scootersmk's excellent guide (ps - the corrections suggested by kosan still aren't incorporated into the original post)...

However, a few minutes after loading the driver, my system freezes (sorry I can't be more technically descriptive about this process - the system just goes completely nonresponsive). For that short window, though, it works perfectly...

I'm running linux-2.6.3-rc2-mm1 with ndiswrapper 0.4 and the Linksys drivers (I've also tried the drivers linked to from the ndiswrapper site - same problem). Perhaps this is the same problem as described previously in this thread ("segmentation fault"), but honestly I don't know what happens after a segmentation fault.

Anyway, if anyone else has encountered this problem, please let me know.

Thanks!

[EDIT]
Got it to work using cvs version - good post, Jondale. The command syntax has changed again, so anyone trying this for the first time should just read the INSTALL doc after you check it out of CVS.
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manifest · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 13

Followed the install instructions in the ndiswrapper directory. (This is for the current cvs version btw)

That got the ndiiswrapper loaded. Then all i had to do was put in /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6

ndiswrapper

On reboot it remember my configuration and loaded the ndiswrapper with no problems. Whats soo much better with the version currently in cvs is that it stores the windows drivers and options in a config file (/etc/ndiswrapper). I guess we should wait till the next revision of ndiswrapper before updating the instructions.

choenig

Hi,

soda_popstar · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 177

Thanks for the HOWTO, it helped me a lot. :lol:

I've now got my wireless Centrino working ... *whew*.

I've only got one more question. I use wireless Internet at school, while I use wired Internet at home. Is there some sort of init-script that can detect which one is available and start up net.eth0/net.wlan0 when necessary? It's not a big deal right now, as I just need to remember to do "rc-update del net.eth0" before leaving for school. I created a bash script called "wireless" that loads ndiswrapper and starts net.wlan0, so I just need to run that when I start up my laptop at school.

So pretty much all I need is a script that detects if wireless or wired Internet is available, then runs /usr/bin/wireless if there's wireless, or /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start if wired is available. I would write it myself, but I don't know how to do that.

sekh · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2002 Posts: 55

Thank you for this great thread! really helped me get mine up and running

I'm sort of facing the same problem as soda_popstar where i would like my pc to just use eth0 if that's available on boot and otherwise try the wlan. However i think i'm just going to setup different runlevels since there are certain services i dont want running while i'm using wlan (at the university or work) anyway

soda_popstar: there's a program called mii-diag (in portage) which will let you know wether or not there's a connection on the ethernet cable for your wired NIC, you can use this to detect if it's available or not and then do whatever you like accordingly. Search the forum for it, i saw a few scripts that used it and could do something along the lines of what you want

Kurbel · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Germany

Thank you for this awesome tutorial!
I just found one little mistake that you probarbly could change:
You tell to copy the loadndisdriver to /usr/sbin, but in the /etc/modules.d/wlan0 you tell to use the /usr/bin path for it...

Kind regards,
Kurbel
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bbrazil · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 3

I got my WPC54G working about halfway, but I can't seem to talk to my AP.

if I do an iwlist scanning, I see the AP, its ESSID, its MAC address, and that Encryption is Off.

If I do iwconfig wlan0 mode Ad-Hoc it changes to Ad-Hoc just fine. If I change it back to managed, it's happy, too.

If I do iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID it just blinks at me. It doesn't spit out an error or anything, it just silently returns without setting the ESSID.

Any guesses as to where I should look?

forceflow2 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:04 am Post subject:

I have this exact same problem. ESSID never gets set. I can't connect to any APs but I can see them
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SPY_jmr1 · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 62

Just had perfect results witha toshiba centrino (intel pro 2100 chip), using the CVS ndiswrapper, and generic drivers.

No flaws, None I can see anyway:D

forceflow2 · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:58 am Post subject:

Is anyone who got it working with the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 using a restricted AP with WEP key? If so, what did you guys do differently from those of us who don't have it working?
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corefile · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 44

Uggg. When I try and do a make && make install in the cvs ndiswrapper, its failes saying I have SMP support in my kernel, so i rebuilt with out it and I still get the error. Any one else have this problem?

-p

Kurbel · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Germany

Be sure, that you also disabled Local APIC Support in your kernel - usually this should fix it.

To everyone with problems setting ESSID: I haven't with IntelPRO2100 - of course I cannot tell you why, but I simply followed this HOWTO. Maybe you've choosen the wrong windrivers? I used the ones mentioned here and not those distributed with my notebook...
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forceflow2 · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:41 am Post subject:

I used the ones that came from the site also. I have a new strategy that I received from someone but cannot test for a few hours. Shall see if it actually fixes things or not. Here's hoping
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swimgeek

Hi,
I have Dell Inspiron 4150 with Dell TrueMobile 1180 (Broadcom 4301) chipset, on gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3-r1. The version 0.4 of ndiswrapper didn't seem to work for me, but since yesterday the CVS version is working perfectly for me!

forceflow2 · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:

Finally got it working. Had to use open mode instead of restricted. Took a dive into the man page of iwconfig and just started changing options :wink:

Posting this right now from my Gentoo install during Computer Science class (yes, this is more important than listening to the professor talk about Iterators...)
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3.1415 · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject:

thanks for this useful HOWTO
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