Help with D-Link WiFi PCMCIA card needed!

[Karol Pluciennik]

Hello everybody!
I have some problems running my WiFi card under Fedora Core 2 (2.6.6 
with 8k stack). The only driver I have for this card is for kernel 
2.4.19/2.4.20 and it work very well under this configuration. Now I 
compiled kernel 2.6.6 with 8k stack and tried to use ndiswrapper to use 
my Windows drivers.


[root at troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
netdlwl present
[root at troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# modprobe ndiswrapper


Dmesg show sth. like this:


ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded
ndiswrapper adding netdlwl.sys
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0d:88:58:b2:98 using driver 
netdlwl.sys


Everything seems ok, the driver seems to work (leds are blinking) but 
when I connect to Ad-Hoc network:


[root at troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# iwconfig wlan0 essid TroLoo
[root at troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"TroLoo"  Nickname:"troloo.laptop"
           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.412GHz  Cell: 02:E0:82:5F:E1:94
           Bit Rate=11Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
           RTS thr=2432 B   Fragment thr=2432 B
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-95 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

[root at troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:88:58:B2:98
           inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:4284 (4.1 Kb)
           Interrupt:3 Memory:18400000-18400024

[root at troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
wlan0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 
wlan0
default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 
wlan0

Network configuration looks ok (192.168.0.1 is my gateway) but I can't 
see any computers connected!

[root at troloo ndiswrapper-0.8]# ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
 From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
...

As I was reading on ndiswrapper web page, it is not possible to scan for 
available networks - I can't check if my computer can see other ones. 
The problem is that even if I set some network, say 'test', on other 
computer with Windows I can't see it. What's wrong? Every help will be 
very appreciated :) I really don't want to use kernel 2.4.20 (it works 
much worse on my computer than 2.6.6).

-- 
Regards - TroLoo