[Nottingham] WLAN Problems

[Joshua Lock]

Hi Robert

Robert Hart wrote:
> 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.

Hooray for Google ;)

> 
> 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.

lsmod listed the prism54 drivers having being loaded so rmmod prism54 
fixed the problem.
Only problem now is I don't know how to make it permanent :s

Wireless card works a treat though! Thanks for your help!

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