Wireless woes - ndiswrapper

[Howard Coles]

On 6/19/06, Joseph <mangg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>   I recently moved from another distro and Kubuntu 606.  I added
> ndiswrapper (per instructions
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper?action=show&redirect=SetupNdiswrapperHowto)
> and installed the driver per the instructions on the
> Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Ndiswrapper websites.  I see the drivers loaded and the card
> active as eth1 and NOT wlan0.  So the output of ndiswrapper -l shows the
> driver loaded and available.  Iwconfig output looks fine and I did do a ifup
> eth1 and I see a dhcp request.  Strangely  for some reason when I do a
> ifconfig I  do NOT see eth1 as a listed and active interface.  All my Kde
> networking tools seem unable to associate with any access point.  Anyone
> seen this before?  Any help is deeply appreciated. =)
>

The problem is that you have the restricted modules installed and the native
driver is trying to load.  Do you have a Broadcom or Atheros based card?
That would help us in figuring out how to help further.

BTW:  You can do an lsmod | grep ath or lsmod | grep bc to find out if the
Atheros Madwifi module, or the Broadcom 43xx module is loading.  I had these
symptoms on a Dell D600 with a Broadcom 4300 based wireless NIC.

-- 
See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!
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