Linksys WMP54G Wireles Adaptor Wont Work; Or I Don't Know How To

[NoOp]

On 02/07/2008 09:50 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry to hear about your problems. That card should
>> be supported by
>> the rt2400 driver, which is included in the current
>> kernel; no
>> ndiswrapper necessary. I haven't tried it under
>> Ubuntu but it works
>> under Fedora.
>> 
> Welll, gave it a good try and I'm sorry to say it
> didn't work with the rt2400. I cleared out
> /etc/modules of the rt modules I added and all the
> blacklisted modules I added until the system was back
> to original state when it was wired.  Pulled the card
> and rebooted to clear out any related moduled in the
> kernel.  Added it back and rebooted again.  lspci
> listed the card. lsmod listed rt2400pci and all
> related dependencies but dmesg, debug, kern and daemon
> logs had no mention of anything wireless and iwconfig
> had no wireless extensions.Adding all the detail
> because I don't know what I'm doing and someone may
> see something wrong. The  irg wasn't even assigned as
> on my other trials and I'm wondering if I should
> remove the NIC in case it could be interfering with
> the wifi.
> Thaanks your efforts are appreciated,
> 
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 

Leonard, are you running the 'generic' kernel? I had a heck of a time
getting ndiswrapper & other wifi working on my son's laptop with the 386
kernel. It was only when I switched back to the standard 'generic'
kernel that everything started working.

uname -r

will give you the version.