Ndiswrapper problems

[Josh Coffman]

--- Cat <koolkat2500 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The computer I'm posting from is a Dell Dimension
> 4600 w/ an Pentium 4, 2.6 
> ghz & hyperthreading. I'm posting this from XP but
> I'm dual-booting with 
> Ubuntu 5.10. The adapter works fine on Ubuntu.
> Ubuntu's kernel is 2.6.12 and 
> DSL's is 2.4.26. The chipset for the adapter is,
> according to 
>
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz,
> is a Prism GT. It's a 
> USB adapter (Linksys WUSB54GV2), and I've got it to
> work fine under Linux 
> before. I configure it to use DHCP, and I have no
> WEP key. Basically I just 
> install the driver and configure it either with a
> graphical program (such as 
> the network configuration in Ubuntu) or iwconfig.
> I'm using DSL 1.2. I don't 
> know how to find the version number of ndiswrapper,
> so if you know how, let 
> me know.
> I've heard of other people having this problem, so I
> know I'm not the only 
> one.

Sounds like you  got a couple things going against
you. First is USB. Some distros do a better job with
the udb wifi, but not all do well with them.

Second is the 2.4 kernel. I seem to recall reading
something about needing a kernel patch. I could be
totally wrong... that was a while ago and I'm still
new to linux.

I have a suspicion that those two are working against
you. Hopefully someone else here can be more helpful.

Shin zen ni rei
-j
Registered Linux user number 403109
  http://counter.li.org/
  


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