[Nottingham] WLAN Problems

[Robert Hart]

I don't know about that device, but I have ndiswrapper working on
debian/ubuntu computers. The main gotcha I had was having (non-working)
linux drivers loaded before the ndiswrapper driver was being loaded.

You can't be that much of a newbie if you've got as far as installing
ndiswrapper and looking at dmesg.

Use lsmod to see what modules are loaded (and maybe post the output here
if it doesn't make any sense) and then use rmmod to remove anything that
might be in the way.

The other possibility is that there is more than one variant of the
network card you have and not all are supported.

Rob


On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:33 +0100, Joshua Lock wrote:
> Humid afternoon to you all on the list,
> 
> I wonder if anyone out there might be able to help me.
> I am fairly newbie to Linux and recently bought myself a Fujitsu Siemens 
> Amilo Pro V7010 laptop after reading on Linux-laptops.org that people 
> have had success with this software under GNU\Linux.
> 
> However after having bought the hardware and installing Ubuntu Hoary 
> (Debian installer is still a bit intimidating and I wanted latest Gnome) 
> I re-read the article at linux-laptops discovering that I have a crap 
> Prism XBow unsupported by Prism 54 but apparently working under NDsiwrapper.
> 
> Here comes the dilemma, I installed NDiswrapper and installed my windows 
> driver. ndiswrapper -l lists the hardware as detected but I cannot get 
> the device to work and iwconfig doesn't list any wireless interfaces.
> 
> I read about dmesg on the net and I have some output, seems that my 
> kernel is trying to load firmware via prism54. Output of dmesg follows:
> 
> ndiswrapper: driver prisma00 (Conexant,07/20/2004, 2.1.25.0) added
> eth1: resetting device...
> eth1: uploading firmware...
> prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3886'
> eth1: could not upload firmware ('isl3886')
> 
> Can anyone help??? Please!
> 
> Running Ubuntu Hoary 5.0.4, ndiswrapper 1.1
> 
> Best
> 
> Joshua Lock
> 
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Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham


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