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condorstats

Nov 17 2006, 11:04 AM

Hi all,

Well now im running Debian, found the slim distros a bit too... slim!

So yeah, I have a WPC54G Wireless PCMCIA card, which needs Ndiswrapper to be used.

I first of all changed my repositories to "unstable" then ran "dist-upgrade" and also moved up to kernel as below

ran uname - a
" Linux JohnLaptop 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Tue Aug 16 13:22:48 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux "

Then downloaded the ndiswrapper through Synaptic for this kernel, im sure the version is correct.

It all seemed to install ok.

Next I run

"ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf"

all installs correct etc... just like it has on previous linux dists ive used.

next, this is the problem!

#modprobe ndiswrapper
presents the following error.

"FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted "

btw, I am running that asroot.

So, can anyone help me out here? the wireless is the only thing to get sorted out really!

Cheer

LinuxSam

Nov 17 2006, 04:47 PM

Just to check that it isn't allready loaded... run lsmod and post the output.

also try this:

dpkg -l |grep ndiswrapper

and post the output

and : dpkg -l |grep linux-image

and post the output.

and make sure that you also have ndiswrapper-utils installed.

/LinuxSam

condorstats

Nov 20 2006, 02:35 AM

lsmod

CODE

Module                  Size  Used by
vfat                   14656  0
af_packet              22568  2
msdos                   9696  0
fat                    46784  2 vfat,msdos
sd_mod                 21728  0
scsi_mod              125228  1 sd_mod
floppy                 61200  0
snd_mixer_oss          20096  1
ipv6                  264772  8
ds                     18756  4
uhci_hcd               33136  0
snd_cs46xx             91976  1
snd_rawmidi            25124  1 snd_cs46xx
snd_seq_device          8200  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         69988  1 snd_cs46xx
snd_pcm                98728  1 snd_cs46xx
snd_timer              25732  1 snd_pcm
snd                    57156  7 snd_mixer_oss,snd_cs46xx,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_t
imer
soundcore              10272  2 snd
snd_page_alloc         11752  2 snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm
gameport                4704  1 snd_cs46xx
e100                   32608  0
mii                     5120  1 e100
yenta_socket           21728  1
pcmcia_core            70868  2 ds,yenta_socket
agpgart                34664  0
dm_snapshot            19100  0
dm_mirror              22580  2
dm_mod                 59804  2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
capability              4520  0
commoncap               7232  1 capability
psmouse                20360  0
mousedev               10476  1
usbmouse                5664  0
usbcore               118980  4 uhci_hcd,usbmouse
ide_cd                 42656  0
cdrom                  40732  1 ide_cd
rtc                    12760  0
ext3                  127240  2
jbd                    62616  1 ext3
mbcache                 9348  1 ext3
ide_generic             1408  0
piix                   13440  1
ide_disk               19296  4
ide_core              139940  4 ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
unix                   28756  592
font                    8320  0
vesafb                  6656  0
cfbcopyarea             3872  1 vesafb
cfbimgblt               3040  1 vesafb
cfbfillrect             3776  1 vesafb

dpkg -l |grep ndiswrapper

CODE

ii  ndiswrapper-common                 1.28-1                          Common scripts required to use the utilities
ii  ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-2-686    1.1-2                           Ndiswrapper linux kernel module
ii  ndiswrapper-utils                  1.1-5                           Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
ii  ndiswrapper-utils-1.1              1.1-5                           Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper

dpkg -l |grep linux-image <-- Has no output?

Cheers

LinuxSam

Nov 21 2006, 05:35 AM

QUOTE

dpkg -l |grep linux-image <-- Has no output?

That is strange... if you have a kernel installed... try it with only linux or change it to kernel-image

/LinuxSam

condorstats

Dec 25 2006, 06:54 PM

Hi,

For all those interested, i came back around to a fresh install of Debian now, ( got my partitions messed up RE backup so needed wipe clean) and the way it is done now...

upgraded to kernel 2.6.8-3-686
installed "ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-3-686"
installed ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-utils.

#ndiswrapper -i lsbcmnds.inf
#ndiswrapper -m
#modprobe ndiswrapper

brought me my lovely wlan0 connection.

installed "wireless-tools" also,

and set up my /etc/network/interfaces as follows

CODE

# The primary network interface
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid xxxx
wireless-mode managed
wireless-key xxxx

I also added "ndiswrapper" to /etc/modules

Job Done (well, i'll find out when I reboot!)

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