ndiswrapper + add/delete interface buttons in network-admin

[Corvin Russell]

--- Darryl Clarke <smartssa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/13/05, Corvin Russell
> <corvin_russell at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am new to Ubuntu but a long time SuSE user. I've
> > installed Ubuntu on a spare computer and I'm
> trying to
> > get the network up and running. The only available
> > network connection is wireless. I need to add the
> > wireless interface, but when I bring up
> network-admin
> > it does not show the "add" or "delete" buttons for
> the
> > interfaces. How can I change this? Failing that,
> how
> > should I add the interfaces?
> 
> The devices that show up are loaded network drivers.
> 
> You'll need to configure the driver for your
> wireless, then it will
> show up and you can then use the 'configure' button
> to do so.
> 
> failing that, you can always manually edit
> /etc/network/interfaces
> 


No. I know that once the interface is present, I can
configure it. eth0 and eth1 are already there, and I
have the option of configuring them. However, there is
no option to delete these interfaces or add another.
The add/delete buttons simply are not present. Now why
aren't they? I have added wlan0 to
/etc/network/interfaces to no effect.

I am using a US Robotics USR5420 usb wireless adapter
based on the Broadcom chipset. I have installed the
driver using ndiswrapper. This same driver works on
SuSE 9.3 (although the driver causes kernel crashes
from time to time). However, when I do "ndiswrapper
-l" on Ubuntu I get the message:

usr5420: invalid driver!

"lsusb" shows the hardware is present. 

The same driver with the same hardware with
ndiswrapper 1.7 is recognized and usable on SuSE. 

So, any advice?

Corvin

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