FC5 issue with ndiswrapper
Josh Coffman
josh_coffman at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 24 21:28:41 UTC 2006
--- Gary Cobb <gecobb at maine.rr.com> wrote:
> Josh Coffman wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> The kernel-devel rpm is on the distro. All I had
> to
> >> do was select the
> >> development packages and it installed it for me.
> >>
> >> kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64.rpm
> >> kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64.rpm
> >> are both on the install DVD.
> >>
> >>
> > </snip>
> *** That's an x86_64 DVD, I used the i386 CD and it
> was no where to be
> found either on the FC5T3 or the FC5 GA distro.
>
> > Has anyone gotten NetworkManager or the network
> gui
> > applet to recognize wlan0 usin ndiswrapper?
> >
> > I can manage wlan0 fine in cli, but not the nice
> gui
> > tools. So I think its not an ndiswrapper of
> > wireless-tools problem.
> >
> >
> No. IMHO it is busted. It worked in FC4 and FC5T3,
> but not in FC5.
>
> I had to go to my FC4 partition and copy the files
> in
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default and
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts manually into the FC5
> partition. Then
> everything worked like a charm. I don't know where
> the responsibility
> for creating these files lies.
>
> I used to be able to 1) install and configure
> ndiswrapper, 2) bring up
> the interface from CLI, 3) run
> system-config-network, 4) disable eth0 at
> startup (just gets rid of a boot time "FAILED"
> message), 5) configure
> and enable wlan0 at startup, and 6) reboot. Not any
> more :-(
>
I am able to use NetworkManager for it now, but I had
to add "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" in /etc/modprobe.conf
as other people have posted.
I'm not sure if is because of settings, but the
Network applet(system-config-network) doesn't seem to
be able to connect.
In FC4 I build ndiswrapper from source each time I
upgraded my kernel. This time I pulled ndiswrapper
from livna. I don't know if building from source would
work the same as in FC4; might have to try it.
For now, NetworkManager or iwconfig is functionable.
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