Still no wireless network on my laptop

[Tom Weniger]

On 8/17/05, Johan Lozano <johan.lozano at tiscali.be> wrote:
> > 3) ndiswrapper -d 17fe:2120
> > # I may have this backwards -- but don't think so  --
> >
> [root at mbarwen 80211g]# ndiswrapper -d 14e4:4318 bcmwl5
> ln: `/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318.5.conf': File exists
> Driver 'bcmwl5' is used for '14E4:4318'
> 
> 
> > 4) ndiswrapper -m # Writes info to modprobe.conf
> >
> [root at mbarwen 80211g]# ndiswrapper -m
> Adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf
> 
> 
> > 5) modprobe ndiswrapper
> >
> [root at mbarwen 80211g]# modprobe ndiswrapper
> [root at mbarwen 80211g]# (no message, no error)
> 
Greetings Johan,

Please check your modprobe.conf file to see if the entry has been
correctly written. I have had the same problem with a different driver
which was fixed when I manually entered the alias into the
modprobe.conf file.
 
-- 
Virtually,
Tom W