wmp54g wireless card not recognized by iwconfig

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jiggaman776 · Post by **jiggaman776** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:14 am

Hello all,

So i've finally decided to try setting up the drivers for my Linksys wireless g card, and i'm making progress, but still not there. I am using ndiswrapper as many of you are familar with. So following the README, i get all the way to where i run driver loader w/ the drivers:

/utils/loaddriver 14e4 4320 bcmwl5.sys bcmwl5.inf

After executing this command, eveything seems to go ok, no errors are reported. However, when i execute 'iwconfig', i get teh following result:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

Interestingly, when i run iwconfig before installing the drivers, i get simply:

o no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

So it seems to be installing it, but for some reason the signal isn't picked up. I'm kinda a newbie to linux, so ANY assitance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot for the assistance.

Gentoo 2.4.21 Kernel
Athlon XP 2100+
Linksys WPM54G PCI Wireless Card

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:13 am

You need to have wireless networking enabled in the kernel and then re-emerge the wireless-tools package

jiggaman776 · Post by **jiggaman776** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:26 pm

Awesome.....could you tell me how to do that please? haha. Sorry, i'm still a n00b, but i'm trying to learn. If you could let me know how to enable the wireless in the kernel, i would really appreciate it, thanx.

kenw · Post by **kenw** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:38 am

Thank you thank you... I forgot all about enabling wireless lan support when I compiled the 2.6.0 kernel.

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:51 am

jiggaman776 wrote:Awesome.....could you tell me how to do that please? haha. Sorry, i'm still a n00b, but i'm trying to learn. If you could let me know how to enable the wireless in the kernel, i would really appreciate it, thanx.

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cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

(2.6 kernels select Device Drivers first)
Select Networking Support
Select Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
[*] Wireless LAN drivers
You don't need to select any drivers though.

Recompile kernel
make_modules install
install new kernel

jiggaman776 · Post by **jiggaman776** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 10:28 pm

K, i completely recompiled the kernel, made the new bzImage, booted to that etc. Then, i did an "emerge wireless-tools" and re-installed the wireless tools. I then "insmod driver/ndiswrapper.o" and load the drivers. After the loading of the drivers i get as follows:

Calling putdriver ioctl
Parsing the inf file.
Driver version: 06/13/2003, 3.20.23.0
Adding setting: RadioState = 0
Adding setting: PowerSaveMode = 0
Adding setting: frag = 2346
Adding setting: rts = 2347
Adding setting: PwrOut = 100
Adding setting: antdiv = -1
Adding setting: RoamTrigger = -70
Adding setting: PLCPHeader = 0
Adding setting: IBSSGMode = 0
Adding setting: IBSSGProtection = 2
Adding setting: Locale = 0
Adding setting: Rate = 0
Adding setting: Channel = 11
Calling startdriver ioctl

WHen i 'iwconfig', i still get the same output as before, "eth1 : no wireless extensions". So at this point i know i have Wireless Networking enabled on my kernel, and the modules load, jsut after installing the drives, there is still no wireless extension found.

Any other help would be much appreciated.

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 3:13 pm

AFAIK the NDIS wrapper won't work for wireless cards as it only exposes the Windows NDIS stuff to linux networking ........ which has no wireless extensions.

You'll need a native wireless linux driver I think

MrMoo · Post by **MrMoo** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:36 am

Im having the same problems as jiggaman776, I have enabled wireless networking in the kernel, and then i emerged wireless-tools, but iwconfig still says that there are no wireless extensions, the whole thing is working and i have wireless access to my AP, but iwconfig does nothing, im using the madwifi driver version 0.1_pre20031213-r1. any suggestions?

mxc · Post by **mxc** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:47 pm

I have an intel Pro Wirelss 2200 and using ndiswrapper. I downloaded the Inf and sys files from the ndiswrapper homepage. I emerge wireless-tools and ndiswrapper. I have the wireless network enabled in the kernel.

When I first did an ndiswrapper -i /lib/windirvers/<driver>.sys it complained about missing DLLs so I copied these to the directory and retried the command. There were no errors.

I then did a ndiswrapper -l which shows the w22n51 driver as being loaded. When I do a iwconfig it still says that there is "no wireless extension" for eth1. It seems to be picking the wireless card up as an ethernet nic. Any ideas?

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:27 pm

Why not try the native linux driver? It's early stages, but it may work for you

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

wmp54g wireless card not recognized by iwconfig

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