RE: [MLUG] Wireless NIC on SuSE 10

["Nowlin, Dan" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

OK.  What do you get if you type this command:

iwlist wlan0 scan 

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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pepper, Mike
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 8:57 PM
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: RE: [MLUG] Wireless NIC on SuSE 10
> 
> OK, I have made ground tonight. I found a version on the 
> install disk that compiles. So I did the ndiswrapper -i /path as su.
> I then confirmed that it was installed by typing ndiswrapper 
> -l again as su.
> The next step was to modprobe ndiswrapper.
> I was given no errors, just brought back to the command prompt.
> I then attempted to configure the card.
> iwconfig wlan0 essid key restricted <hex> I simply typed in 
> the hex key here.
> 
> Ok here is where the back stopped.
> Here is the error that I got back...
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A):
> Set failed for device wlan0; No such device
> 
> Where do I go from here?
> 
> Mike
> 
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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nowlin, Dan
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 8:13 PM
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> Subject: RE: [MLUG] Wireless NIC on SuSE 10
> 
> I would have to agree about just building ndiswrapper from 
> source.  I am not very good at doing source builds and that 
> is the only way that I install ndiswrapper.  Besides if you 
> upgrade your kernel then you will have to rebuild ndiswrapper 
> anyway or be without wireless until somebody makes a new rpm.
> 
> Dan 
> 
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> > [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell Horn
> > Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:53 PM
> > To: MLUG Members
> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] Wireless NIC on SuSE 10
> > 
> > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 13:50 -0600, Josh wrote:
> > > Could be a version incompatibility betweent he ndiswrapper
> > module and
> > > your kernel.
> > 
> > Ooops, I forgot - the SuSE RPM probably won't work, it 
> doesn't include 
> > the kernel module.
> > 
> > Build ndiswrapper from source and you should be good to go.
> > 
> > Russell
> > 
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