Re: [MLUG] Wireless NIC on SuSE 10

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Sorry for being so late with this observation, but a "wireless interface does 
not support scanning" error sometimes is normal for certain wireless cards 
under Linux. I don't use ndiswrapper because my card, a venerable Lucent 
Orinoco 802.11b (orinico_cs driver), has native Linux drivers. But those 
native drivers do NOT support scanning for networks. 

I have heard that that is sometimes true for some ndis-wrapped drivers as 
well, so your card might be able to connect to APs and tx/rx data but just 
not scan for available APs. 

Phillip

On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:38, Pepper, Mike wrote:
> I had installed Driverloader trying to get things to work. I think that
> it hijacked the wlan0 at some point.
>
> I am reinstalling the OS at this point to get back to a clean slate.
>
> One of the problems working like this is that I don't have an internet
> connection and am relying on Winblows on a laptop to look for answers,
> and grab possible files to use.
>
> I'll post an update later this afternoon after I get things reloaded.
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> Thanks
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> Mike
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> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 1:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Wireless NIC on SuSE 10
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> Don't mean to jack the thread - but this is a good opportunity to
> mention one of the strengths of my beloved debian. There is a great
> package called "module-assistant" that makes building kernel modules
> from source simple. You just:
>
> apt-get install ndiswrapper (which downloads the ndiswrapper helper
> apps, dependencies,etc. and the source for the kernel module)
> module-assistant
> and use a nice dialog interface to pick ndiswrapper..module-assistant
> will download the source to your kernel if its missing, compile the
> module, and even install it in the kernel with modprobe for ya.
>
> Josh.
>
> Russell Horn wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 13:50 -0600, Josh wrote:
>
>
> 	Could be a version incompatibility betweent he ndiswrapper
> module and
> 	your kernel.
>
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>
> 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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