[ale] linksys G pcmcia question

[Armsby John-G16665]

Do you activate the connection manually via the localhost web page? 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jerald Sheets
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:39 AM
To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
Subject: RE: [ale] linksys G pcmcia question


Any of the Broadcomm-style chipsets (54G) require some type of loader.  The only two currently on the market are Linuxant's loader and NDISwrapper.
 
I *NEVER* got NDISwrapper running.  driverloader worked first time, and continues to work every time.
 
It was well worth the paltry few bucks to by driverloader.
 
--jms

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Armsby John-G16665
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:17 AM
To: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: [ale] linksys G pcmcia question


All,
 
I bought a Linksys B (cheap) wireless router and a Linksys G pcmcia card.  I was a bit leary of the G card regarding Linux compatibility but figured the hardware must be supported by now.  NO I DID NOT DO MY HOMEWORK.... I Iknow I should hve done a compatibility look up.... spent a number of hours trying to get the card to work.  I employed two strategies.  BTW I am running Mandrake 10.
 
1.  NDIS wrapper based upon an article at LinuxElectrons "Getting your wireless NIC working with the NDIS wrapper device driver".  I faithfully performed a ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf.  The inf files came from my windows CD.  Those files matched the donloaded driver zip file which is a zipped version of my CD.  Performing an NDIS -l showed the files.... modprobe ndiswrapper did not show anything in the dmesg log..... iwconfig produced "no wireless" messages....
 
2.  I went to Linuxant and loaded their 30 day free trial.  It works!  I have to boot without the pcmcia card, insert it, go to a localhost http URL with a unique port name and "refresh".  At that point it begins working.....
 
Can someone point me to a more elegant solution?  I am sure you guys have already encounterd this type of question.  A redirect will suffice.....
 
Thanks,
 
John
 


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