ndiswrapper 1.5 [SOLVED]

[James]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:15 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2005, 13:58 +0000 schrieb Mary Ellen Foster:
> > On 12/1/05, Patrick <fedora at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 11:50 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > ok, got it now working. it is really a pig, like already said. ifconfig
> > > > -a told me later, that there exist a device called wlan0 -
> > > > system-config-network didn't.
> > > >
> > > > so, as a first step, i called it manually with ifconfig wlan0 inet
> > > > [ipadress] netmask [netmask] up -> this worked fine.
> > > >
> > > > afterwards, it was also known in system-config-network, so i could do
> > > > the rest there.
> > >
> > > I think I read somewhere that FC4's network scripts have a bit of
> > > trouble handling wlan0. However, you can tell ndiswrapper to use a
> > > different device name. So it is possible to let ndiswrapper call the new
> > > device eth1 instead of wlan0. To make this happen stick this line
> > > in /etc/modprobe.conf:
> > >
> > > options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1
> > 
> > No, no problem with the name wlan0 here. I can't remember how I got
> > system-config-network to notice it -- possibly I manually modprobed
> > ndiswrapper once.
> > 
> > MEF
> > 
> > --
> > __ Mary Ellen Foster __ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ __
> > "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
> > lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination
> > of their C programs." (Robert Firth)
> > 
> i manually modprobed several times - perhaps the ndiswrapper -m was not
> a good choice....but now, it is working flawlessy
> 
> Rog
> 

After running yum update last night and installing the latest kernel it
broke my  ndiswrapper. No prob.. I  would jump to my ndiswrapper source
and make && make install. 

.....Crud .... errors.... 

Went and downloaded ndiswrapper-1.6 and did the make && make install and
all is well.

We have WEP encryption at our office and I had to modify
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless script with the
following 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~snip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
if [ -n "$KEY" -o -n "$KEY1" -o -n "$KEY2" -o -n "$KEY3" -o -n
"$KEY4" ] ; then
    [ -n "$KEY1" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [1] $KEY1
    [ -n "$KEY2" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [2] $KEY2
    [ -n "$KEY3" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [3] $KEY3
    [ -n "$KEY4" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [4] $KEY4
    [ -n "$DEFAULTKEY" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key [${DEFAULTKEY}]
    [ -n "$KEY" ] && iwconfig $DEVICE key $KEY open
else
    iwconfig $DEVICE key off
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~snip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I had to add "open" to be able to use the network configuration gui.

-James 
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