On 21/09/12 21:50, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 21/09/12 15:38, Dean Ramsden wrote:
On 17/09/12 12:17, Peter Merchant wrote:
Hi, I have been trying to get an obscure PCMCIA card
working under ndiswrapper and I now have it recognised,
but it doesn't connect. I have discovered that the
existing config files were for the usual wireless device
that I use and MAC address specific. I have moved them.
When I try and use the Windows Wireless Drivers program
from the menu, and select the configure driver option, it
is greyed out and I cannot use it. Any thoughts, aside
from pulling back one of the other configs and changing
MAC address?
This is on an ancient x30 thinkpad running xUbuntu 12.04.
Looking at the output of your iwconfig command there still seems to
be an issue as the link quality doesn't indicate a connection though
the essid says you are connected, interesting.
Does your router have an IP address for admin tasks and can you log
into it with a browser when you connect with the WiFi card?
Also, I forgot to ask but what make/model is the PCMCIA card?
The PCMCIA card is a Linksys WPC54g revision 5.
After another session, with being logged into the router as you
suggested, It is still not working. It is not shown on the ndiswrapper
page as a supported card, though the revision 4 is. I did see
something somewhere that suggested that the rev 5 card would work with
rev 4 drivers, but that didn't work for me.
The logfile on the router was set to 'show all traffic' but did not
show anything from this card.
I have spent some time every evening since before last Friday working
on this, and am now giving up and admitting defeat. I'll move on to my
next problem.
Thanks for your help and advice.
Peter
Before you give up it might be worth trying a different driver with the
card. A bit of searching on google led me to:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Airnet_AWD154
there you can download a driver which have been known to have worked
with the chipset on the PCMCIA card.
I think 'ndiswrapper -e drivername' can be used to remove the existing
driver and then start again installing the new driver.
I had one of the earlier versions of the card that used broadcom
chipsets myself and had a hell of a time getting 64 bit drivers for it.
Dean
Dean
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