[Voyage-linux] Re: Compiling drivers for VIA mini pci card ( solomon) vt6655

[Sean]

Rad,

Hmm, my steps work on a Norhtec MicroClient SxJr with a VIA vt6655 wireless card.

Did you do "ndiswrapper -ma"? This will make it load at startup in the file /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.

Perhaps you need to try a different version of the windows driver?

Also you can try creating/modifying the file /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper and put in the line "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper".

Sean


varadarajan narayanan wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I tired Ndiswrapper and did not have much luck.
>
> 1) ndiswrapper -i VNWL.inf  > ndiswrapper -i vnwl.inf
>
> The card was not detected at all . After lot of googling around ,I
> found that the module may be missing.
>
> Tried lsmod  > ndiswrapper was missing.
>
> I tried modprobe ndiswrapper as mentioned in the original artilce.
>
> "FATAL module Ndiswrapper was not found."
>
> Again after lot of googling I tried the age old method ,
>
>  "insmod lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/ndiswrapper.ko".
>
> It worked !
>
>  lsmod shows module ndiswrapper installed.
>
> 2) But even though /etc/network/interfaces like you mentioned ,
>
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wireless-essid SMC
> wireless-key <key>
>
>  I get with iwconfig >
>
> IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
>          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
>
> What am I doing wrong ? And if I reboot I have to do insmod again !
>
> Please help !
>
> Cheers
>
> Rad
>
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