Wireless success via USB: Netgear WG111, ndiswrapper, WPA

[Mgiese]

could someone be so kind so have a look here :
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-52 ... ight-.html

i am trying to install another wireless card (toshiba wireless lan mini pci card) with orinoco chipset, hardware seems to work but still problems with WPA in general or wpa_supplicant... i think WEP could work right know, but i do want wpa here too

[AludraHIXY]

Hey..uhhh... ive been trying for hours to find a solution to this but i cant find one...

I'm trying to install gentoo on a x86 box, so my only iso option is the minimal install CD. I'm pretty sure that you can only install gentoo from this cd if the computer in question is connected to the internet, and it is, by a WG111v1...(when i use Windows XP).

So i tried the first thing in this 'howto', "emerge -vabk ndiswrapper", but as im on the livecd installtion still, i cant use emerge yet(command not found). So ive downloaded ndiswrapper and its on the harddrive of my x86 box now, so i can mount the /dev/hda1 to /mnt/hda1 and access the harddrive like that... However, i cant use 'make' in order to compile/install ndiswrapper, as im still on the livecd installation and "command not found"...

Im thinking all i have to do is get ndiswrapper to work, so then i can continue with this howto...

Anyone got any idea how i can install ndiswrapper from the minimum install livecd?

Thanks!

[korda]

# finally, i just tried the following (wext instead of ndiswrapper):

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# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa.conf

....

but somehow strange that also there its just working with

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wpa_supplicant -Dwext

even it is working over NDISWRAPPER ?!?!?!

Same here Mgiese, I could not link up with the AP using -Dndiswrapper but it worked with -Dwext, thanks for this tip, I've been stuck on this for a while.

[coolant]

I've bought the same USB dongle. device ID = 0x6a00.
The CD has some files, I tried ndiswrapper, and the interface wlan0 comes up.
But I'm unable to scan.


Assuming that my problem might be due to the versions of drivers (for XP as opposed to 98/ME), I proceeded to download from netgear site.

All I get from from their site (and a link to their latest drivers , version 3.00) is a "setup.exe" file, which doesn't work with cabextract or unshield.

Any info on how I can play with it.

And, I am able to scan the Access point if I load the native driver, but not make a connection. I'm using WPA for encryption, and I'll prefer to stick to it, unless ofcourse I'm left without a choice.