Ndiswrapper problems

[Josh Coffman]

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

> I've just installed Damn Small Linux on an old
> emachines computer. 334 Mhz, 32 megs of RAM and a
> 3.2 gig hard drive. Now I obviously want to connect
> it to our wireless network, and since DSL comes with
> ndiswrapper, I thought I'd test it out with my wifi
> adapter I use with the computer I'm posting this
> from now. But whenever I try to install the driver
> the computer locks up and wont respond to anything
> unless I restart it. The first time it happened X
> screwed up and I had to reinstall DSL (I'm no Linux
> guru, so that was the easiest solution for me).
> Which wasn't a big problem, but I just want to get
> this old crap-heap connected to the Internet! Anyone
> have any ideas on what can fix this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Cat

Not sure I could help, but maybe someone can with more
information. guessing you can't check dmesg if its
locked up, but what about logs. maybe in /etc/logs ?
(don't know dsl)


Shin zen ni rei
-j
Registered Linux user number 403109
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