ndiswrapper questions

[D. R. Evans]

David McGlone said the following at 03/27/2008 07:23 PM :

> 6. I executed:
>   ndiswrapper -a 0bda:8197 net8187b.
>  
> what does ndiswrapper -l report?
>  
> if it says driver: <blah blah> hardware present or something very similar, you should be good to go.

yes, it reports that.

>  
> now you need  to do:
>  
> sudo depmod -a
> sudo modprobe ndiswrapper (at this point your light for your wireless should come on If you haven't already got to this point)
> 
>  

I did those. Yes, the light is on.

I can do an "ifconfig -a" and I now see an entry labelled "wlan0", but I
don't know what to do to actually use it.


> 8. So now what? How do I actually access and/or configure the wifi network?
> 
> you should be able to go into the control pannel and configure your wireless card and connection.
> 

Can you give me some details, please? I'm probably being incredibly dense,
but it's simply not at all obvious to me where I should be looking, nor
what I should do when I find it.

(I'm sure you can tell, this is the first time I've tried to use wifi with
Kubuntu.)

> In fact, how do I even find out that everything really has installed correctly?
>  
> to find out use the command ndiswrapper -l (like I mentioned above you should get driver:net8187b hardware present.)
>  
> PS: To get a list of commands for ndiswrapper just type ndiswrapper 

Yes, I understand all the ndiswrapper stuff, and that all looks like it
worked. It's the NEXT step where I don't have a clue what to do. Googling
wasn't any help either; basically everything I found said things like
"configure the interface" without suggesting how one might do that.

I tried firing up kwifimanager, but that seemed to think I was in ad-hoc
mode, which I'm not, and even though scanning found my two wlans, I
couldn't figure out how to actually connect to one of them.

I also tried ifdown and ifup: ifdown complained that wlan0 wasn't
configured, and ifup said "ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0".

I'm really flailing around here :-(

It seems like the next step has to be to connect wlan0 to an actual wlan,
but I can't find the magic command to do that :-(

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