Guest ghanima Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 Hello ... I have installed mandriva 2006 recently and have a problem using ndiswrapper to make my dwl-g520+ work ( uses texas acx111 chipset ) Im using ndswrapper 1.2 and the WinXP drivers ( cdrom ) ... i use the console to install the drivers ( ndiswrapper -i ) and then: when i type ndiswrapper -l says ... gplus driver present, hardware present. Then i do ndiswrapper -m && depmod -a && modprobe ndiswrapper The problem comes in the modprobe phase. The module doesn´t get loaded and i can´t see the wlan interface. When i do a dmesg to see what happened i see only two strange things ... ... first: PCI tell me that IRQ 11 its shared ... second: i see a message: windows driver can´t initializate device sharing IRQ is a problem ?? ... I can´t understand why driver fails. Please i need a little help. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Have you tried grabbing the latest version of ndiswrapper from their website and giving that a go? Also, check their wiki to see if anyone has had the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tonsofpcs Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 Having the same problem with a Dell Truemobile WLAN 1350 (bcm4301). MCC gives "Unable to find the ndiswrapper interface!", manual configuration as above gives: # modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 This would mean that the module doesn't exist. Did you download and compile ndiswrapper, or did you use urpmi to install it? If you are compiling, you need to make sure your kernel-source is installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tallen Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Having the same problem here. Why doesn't the module exist if I can use ndiswrapper on the command line? In control center, I get the error "unable to find the ndiswrapper interface". In the konsole, I get a message that the ndiswrapper is not found in /proc/modules. Help please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Have you done this: modprobe ndiswrapper Google for ndiswrapper, and follow the installation wiki. It works a treat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest laplacinator Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 I am having the same exact problem. I installed the latest version of ndiswrapper using urpmi. I have followed the instructions to a tea. When I to modporbe ndiswrapper I get the message: [root@localhost WLAN]# modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. Or when trying to load the driver in Harddrake I get the message: Unable to find ndiswrapper interface! Lots of us seems to have this issue, who has a solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Did you follow the ndiswrapper installation wiki? This works, I've used it. What is the contents of your /etc/modprobe/conf? It should have a line: alias wlan0 ndiswrapper Have you done the ndiswrapper -i filename.inf for your windows driver install for the wlan card you have in your machine? The steps have to be followed to get it to work correctly. Forget using mcc or HardDrake to get it to work. It doesn't do it. Or at least in my experience. ndiswrapper installation wiki here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawi...hp/Installation this should get you working no problem, providing the steps are followed in order. Of course, you don't need to do the compile steps, since the rpm should be installed on your machine with the urpmi command you used. To verify it's installed: rpm -qa ndiswrapper and see if it lists an entry back. If not, it's not installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Some of the mandriva ndiswrapper rpms seem to be broken, if you can't get it to work it's probably worth installing from source - see the pinned thread at the top of this forum for more details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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