ndiswrapper 1.5 [SOLVED]

[Roger Grosswiler]

Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2005, 08:37 -0600 schrieb 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.
> 
Interesting, when i was trying yesterday ndiswrapper 1.6 i got errors
according to libusb (which is installed on my system) so i fell back to
1.5...

Rog