On 1/29/07, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just used NDISWrapper to get a netgear wg111v2 fob to wifi... I have only done this with the 2.6 kernel, never 2.4. I also indicate the rev's I used, you may find different revisions. Get the source ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ cd /usr/local/src mkdir ndis;cd ndsi download the ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz gunzip ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz tar -xvf ndiswrapper-1.9.tar.gz make distclean make make install -- OR -- apt-get install ndiswrapper-source # Source for the ndiswrapper linux kernel module apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils # Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper The following is also need to process the windriver.inf file apt-get install zip # for win zip'd files apt-get install unzip # for win zip'd files apt-get install unshield # for win .cab files Might also need kernel headers (correct for your cpu, etc.) apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386 Get the Windows Driver you want to use Download the driver unzip driver.zip unshield -d x cabfile.cab find the driver.inf to use ndsiwrapper -i driver.inf ndsiwrapper -l should report on sw and hw SO have the h/w hookedup and powered ndsiwrapper -m depmod -a modprobe ndsiwrapper configure the h/w as needed. I offer as an example some detail on install/config for a Netgear WG111 V2 Wifi Fob. from the website: NdisWrapper - Install I used some combo of the following to get my Netgear 111 to 'see' and 'talk' to the network ... unzip wg111v2_v1.0.0.5.zip unshield data2.cab ndiswrapper -i data2.inf ndiswrapper -m depmod -a modprobe ndiswrapper vi /etc/network/interfaces Add the entires for wlan0 these matched the entrie for the cardbus wireless eithernet card I had already running in the machine. ifdown wlan0; ifup wlan0 Once I had the fob working, I had to hand create an S99wlan0 file to bring the fob up. This was set in the rc*.d directory structure. At 05:49 PM 2/8/2006 +0000, Chris Lale wrote: >L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >>I have dell inspiron 600m. today I have loaded base sarge and upgraded >>to unstable. >>I have installed linux-source and ndiswrapper-source. I tried to get >>modules using info on wiki >>http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/InstallDebian. >>My /usr/src folder is as follows >>lvgdell600m:/usr/src# ls -l >>total 38660 >>drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-02-04 12:07 kernel-patches >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 19 2006-02-04 12:32 linux -> linux-source-2.6.15 >>drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2006-02-04 06:00 linux-headers-2.6.15-1 >>drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2006-02-04 06:01 linux-headers-2.6.15-1-686 >>drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2006-02-02 05:04 linux-source-2.6.15 >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39389485 2006-02-02 05:53 linux-source-2.6.15.tar.bz2 >>drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-01-20 15:24 modules >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124786 2006-01-20 15:24 ndiswrapper-source.tar.bz2 >>I tried make modules and got error as follows. >>lvgdell600m:/usr/src/modules/ndiswrapper# ./debian/rules >>binary-modules KSRC=../../linux >>/usr/bin/gcc >>for templ in ; do \ >> cp $templ `echo $templ | sed -e 's/_KVERS_/2.6.15/g'` ; \ >> done >>for templ in `ls debian/*.modules.in` ; do \ >> test -e ${templ%.modules.in}.backup || cp ${templ%.modules.in} >>${templ%.modules.in}.backup 2>/dev/null || true; \ >> sed -e 's/##KVERS##/2.6.15/g ;s/#KVERS#/2.6.15/g ; >>s/_KVERS_/2.6.15/g ; s/##KDREV##//g ; s/#KDREV#//g ; s/_KDREV_//g' < >>$templ > ${templ%.modules.in}; \ >> done >>dh_testdir >>dh_testroot >>dh_clean -k >>dh_installdirs lib/modules/2.6.15/misc >># build and install the module >>/usr/bin/make KPKG_EXTRAV_ARG= KSRC=../../linux \ >> KVER=2.6.15 \ >> INST_DIR=debian/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.15 /lib/modules/2.6.15/misc/ >>install >>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ndiswrapper' >>Can't find kernel sources in ../../linux; >> give the path to kernel sources with KSRC=<path> argument to make >>make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1 >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ndiswrapper' >>make: *** [binary-modules] Error 2 >>I would like to know where I am going wrong. How to make modules and utils. >>-- >>L.V.Gandhi >>http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ >>linux user No.205042 >> >> >It may be worth looking at the Sarge install instructions >http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/InstallDebianSarge >. They are simpler and use a stock kernel. Its easy to go wrong trying >to compile a special kernel. I can see no reason why these instructions >would not work in unstable too. >
Thanks for your time. I have done this using m-a a-i ndiswrapper. everything goes OK. My wifi interface is recognised as eth0 and ethernet one as eth1. I don't know how this done. But any reference to know is welcome. I could get connected also by the script as given by me earlier. Problem is it is neither get activated by hotplug nor by auto eth0 in interfaces. When I run the script after login, it gets connected. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042
