ndiswrapper problems

[that_is_my_cook]

OK...

I have a WB2500 Wireless CardBus PC Card (7th one down here )

I downloaded ndiswrapper and the inf driver from that site. installed ndiswrapper fine and loaded the driver no problems
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up

works fine so far...

to test I open airsnort to find my acsess point
nothing happens and no lights show on the pcmcia card

iwconfig shows no card loaded. Is there maybe something else I have to do after loading the driver? mount it or something like that?

thanks for any help

[Raiden]

I made a tutorial on this a while back, maybe it helps ...

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...r=1#post784161

Maybe it would be handy if you post the output of the next commands :
#lspci
#lsmod
#iwlist scanning
#iwconfig wlan0

Cheers

[that_is_my_cook]

Well I havent got those command print outs yet but I followed your faq there... everything worked fine said loaded etc...

then i put modprobe ndiswrapper and it gave me anerror

Fatal: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.9/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): invalid argument

[Raiden]

Did you build the ndiswrapper-module properly ?

I looked up install-notes on the current release of the ndiswrapper, and make sure that you build it like this :

 #cd <ndiswrapper-source-dir>
#make distclean && make && make install

After that try the modprobe again, and let us know if ti worked.

Cheers

[that_is_my_cook]

I didnt use the distclean part, but it still seemed to work?

Ill go try now...

[that_is_my_cook]

ok partial yay...

I got it to install... and the lights came on on the card!

I did an iwconfig and there was some interesting stuff it had automatically connected to the acsess point, as I saw the name... but there was no internet connection :/

Above that it said 'warning driver for wlan0 recomends version of 18 of wireless extension, but has been complied with 16 therefore some driver features may not be availalbe'

any help with getting the internet to work wouldn't be missed ill go read around on the forums and google...

Looks like the ndiswrapper problems fixed bar a possible problem with that warning, but im assuming thats just with the driver.

[Raiden]

warning driver for wlan0 recomends version of 18 of wireless extension, but has been complied with 16 therefore some driver features may not be availalbe

Dunno for this error, but as its only a warning, it probably won't interfere the working. Although It might be possible you need to reconfigure the wireless-tools (iwconfig) to match your network, a in channel, encryption, ESSID, etc etc ... Match with the settings in your accespoint.
Also a good place to start is to see if you have gotten an ip from your accespoint.

#ifconfig

Cheers.