[gentoo-user] ndiswrapper problems
Finally. I'm sending this email from a working Gentoo system. My wireless card (D-Link DWL-120+, ACX100 chipset) had trouble with acx100, so I unmerged that and gave ndiswrapper a shot. As you can see, it works, despite not being listed on ndiswrapper's compatibility page. (I should probably add it.) Anyway, the problem here is that when you reboot the system, the wireless card doesn't find my access point (D-Link DI-614+), not even with iwlist wlan0 scan. It's only after bringing down wlan0, bringing up wlan0, and issuing iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid my network ESSID channel my channel key open s:my key nick computer's nickname commit that it might come online. And then I need to run dhcpcd and then re-add the gateway (it's a different computer, not the AP). If it still doesn't work, I just mess around until I can ping an outside host. Is there an easier way to make this cheap card work without manual configuration all the time? net.wlan0 isn't in my /etc/init.d directory, but I did add wlan0 is in the autoloaded modules list. Kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r11. Using the tiacxusb.sys and tiacxusb.inf Windows drivers. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper problems
Colin wrote: Finally. I'm sending this email from a working Gentoo system. My wireless card (D-Link DWL-120+, ACX100 chipset) had trouble with acx100, so I unmerged that and gave ndiswrapper a shot. As you can see, it works, despite not being listed on ndiswrapper's compatibility page. (I should probably add it.) Anyway, the problem here is that when you reboot the system, the wireless card doesn't find my access point (D-Link DI-614+), not even with iwlist wlan0 scan. It's only after bringing down wlan0, bringing up wlan0, and issuing iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid my network ESSID channel my channel key open s:my key nick computer's nickname commit that it might come online. And then I need to run dhcpcd and then re-add the gateway (it's a different computer, not the AP). If it still doesn't work, I just mess around until I can ping an outside host. Is there an easier way to make this cheap card work without manual configuration all the time? net.wlan0 isn't in my /etc/init.d directory, but I did add wlan0 is in the autoloaded modules list. Kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r11. Using the tiacxusb.sys and tiacxusb.inf Windows drivers. -- Colin First make a link in /etc/init.d for your wireless device (wlan0), here is what I have ... rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24246 Apr 14 18:24 net.lo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 14 18:24 net.eth0 - net.lo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 26 2004 net.wlan0 - net.eth0 Next add this to the default runlevel rc-update add net.wlan0 default Finally, edit /etc/conf.d/wireless and put your settings in there (read the wireless.example first). Test: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart HTH Craig -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Major ndiswrapper problems - was Re: [gentoo-user] ndiswrapper problems
Craig Duncan wrote: Colin wrote: Finally. I'm sending this email from a working Gentoo system. My wireless card (D-Link DWL-120+, ACX100 chipset) had trouble with acx100, so I unmerged that and gave ndiswrapper a shot. As you can see, it works, despite not being listed on ndiswrapper's compatibility page. (I should probably add it.) Anyway, the problem here is that when you reboot the system, the wireless card doesn't find my access point (D-Link DI-614+), not even with iwlist wlan0 scan. It's only after bringing down wlan0, bringing up wlan0, and issuing iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid my network ESSID channel my channel key open s:my key nick computer's nickname commit that it might come online. And then I need to run dhcpcd and then re-add the gateway (it's a different computer, not the AP). If it still doesn't work, I just mess around until I can ping an outside host. Is there an easier way to make this cheap card work without manual configuration all the time? net.wlan0 isn't in my /etc/init.d directory, but I did add wlan0 is in the autoloaded modules list. Kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r11. Using the tiacxusb.sys and tiacxusb.inf Windows drivers. -- Colin First make a link in /etc/init.d for your wireless device (wlan0), here is what I have ... rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24246 Apr 14 18:24 net.lo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 14 18:24 net.eth0 - net.lo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 26 2004 net.wlan0 - net.eth0 Next add this to the default runlevel rc-update add net.wlan0 default Finally, edit /etc/conf.d/wireless and put your settings in there (read the wireless.example first). Test: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart I'd give that a shot, but Linux seems to lock up randomly. Commands such as ping website and dhcpcd sometimes crash the system. It only spits out a panic message when it crashes outside of X, and when it does, ndiswrapper is mentioned in the panic. The only reason for it crashing that I can come up with would be my kernel upgrade (2.6.11-gentoo-r9 to -r11), but it was working after the upgrade for like a day or so. It doesn't lock up if the wireless card isn't connected to my network. It seems right after I connect to the network and send a few packets, the entire system locks up. I hate this card. I'm going to buy a Linux-compatible PCI wireless card (Prism chipset) and then sell this one to some Windows user on eBay. But in the meantime, I'd like to see if I can get this one working. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
