ndiswrapper killing me

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Tue Mar 29 14:16:07 UTC 2005


> I'm running Fedora Core 3 on an HP zd8000. So far, so good. Except today I
> attempted to get my wireless card working, and I'm having some problems.
>
> The card in question is a Linksys WPC54GS. I've attempted to use ndiswrapper,
> and installed it according to the instructions at
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/e_a_graham_jr/ndis/ and
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/...hp/Installation. According to
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/.../index.php/List this is supposed to be
> one of the easier cards to get up and running. Executing cardctl status shows
> that my PCMCIA card is ready. However, when I attempt to get things going,
> loadndisdriver fails, producing this error message in my system log:
>
> YOG-SOTHOTH kernel: <3>ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:92):
> loadndiswrapper failed (11); check system log for messages from
> 'loadndisdriver'
>
> I can't find much information on Google that seems relevant, and a search of
> this forum produced nothing. I've also googled on the WPC54GS +Fedora and
> found that others seem to have no problem with this card.
>
> In addition, when I try to activate wlan0 through network-devices, I get this
> error:
>
> ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
>
> What could the problem be, and how can I fix it?
>
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what is lspci saying? is your card recognized? Do you have the correct firmware/driver? after doing modprobe
ndiswrapper, did you see any light?

Roger




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