Bdickson2000

Ask the salesman for a card using an Atheros chip. The drivers are very easy to set up. An 'older' model would be a D-Link DWL-G650, for example.

Britt Dickson

thanks for posting that.  however, my HP nx9030 has a on-off button for the internal intel 2200. apparently this tell the card to switch the "radio" on and off.

 

i'm aware of rfswitch, but the instructions on usage are confusing. anyone else manage to figure out how to switch their card "on" and "off" via software?

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ifconfig wlan(0) up

ifconfig wlan(0) down

Britt Dickson

I hope that someone can find this useful.? Of course is anything here is wrong or if there's an easier way, then by all means do tell!

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It should be a lot easier than that, although remember that ndiswrapper was kind of flaky until Mandriva 10.1, unless you added it yourself, which I found difficult. Anyway, using text mode, I cd to the directory on my drive where the XP drivers have been exploded (It's a dual-boot setup), then "ndiswrapper -i YourFile.inf" loads the XP drivers (the .inf and the .sys), and then "modprobe ndiswrapper" starts up wlan(0) and you set it with your declarations or using iwconfig. It remembers settings between boots, and the OS will even pick up a different card if you swap them between boots, and set it all up for you.

Britt Dickson

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Ok, yet another user struggling with ndiswrapper......  With a USB D-link DWL G122 'dongle'.  (Using Mandrake 10.1 Community)

 

ndiswrapper is installed, with XP drivers from the CD. 

ndiswrapper -l shows driver present  hardware present.

 

modprobe ndiswrapper gives no error report

 

However, as is the case with many people on this forum, when I type in Iwconfig I get a list of devices, but NOT wlan0.

 

I added the code

 

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

install ndiswrapper /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ndiswrapper && { loadndisdriver 2001:3c00 /etc/ndiswrapper/netrtusb/rt2500usb.sys; /etc/ndiswrapper/netrtusb/netrtusb.inf; }

to my /etc/modprobe.conf file.

 

I wasn't sure about the 2001:3c00 but I typed 'lsusb' to find my USB D-link device and got the reply:

 

BUS 004 Device 003 : ID 2001:3c00 D-link Corp. [hex]

 

so I guessed that the 2001:3c00 was the ID to use.

 

OK, so what am I doing wrong?  My USB D-link LED doesn't light up and the computer cant seem to find wlan0

 

 

Any ideas folks?  I'm a newbie, so not too brief an answer please! 

Any help appreciated

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Hi,

You shouldn't really need all the above past "modprobe ndiswrapper". That's supposed to fire off wlan(0) which will then show up with "iwconfig all".

Try using drakconf, or the Configuration Center in X11 mode and add ndiswrapper there (under network connections): sometimes making the tool do it will help solve stubborn problems, even if you have etc/modprobe.conf memorized.

Britt Dickson

I have the wireless tools package installed. When I type "iwconfig" all I get is :

 

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

 

Can you tell me why wlan0 isn't showing? And what I have to do to fix it?

Stephen,

I haven't seen the guide, but "modprobe ndiswrapper" usually gets wlan(0) going and then iwconfig will work to set it up.

You can also try "Service network restart" after "modprobe ndiswrapper", assumimg ndiswrapper is set up, of course. That will also get it going.

Britt Dickson

Member 3.14159

As a worst case scenario, you can run xf86config, choose the VESA driver when you get to choosing the graphics card, and get X to run that way.

BD

Use 'urpmi kernel-source-2.6 and have CD3 handy.

BD

okay, I did a "urpmi kernel-source" and used the iso disk #3.  It created a directory (linux-2.4.28-0.pre2.1mdk) and link (linux@). 

 

Only problem is that if I do "uname -r" I get 2.6.8.1-12mdk, and the source code directory name is 2.4.28-0.... 

 

it put this in /usr/src.  My vme-memory access software is looking at /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/build - ORIGINAL. 

 

Can anybody tell me how to do this?  I'm guessing I can change the directory in the Makefiles, but I'm also wondering if there will be a lot of things I'll miss.

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At this point, 'urpmi kernel-source-2.6' would have gotten the correct .rpm from CD3.

BD

If you 'urpmi kernel-source-2.6' you'll get what you want.

BD

Murda:

Here's the steps i followed to get access to this Win2000 laptop from my Mdk 10.1 box via ethernet:

Win2000:

Share drive(s)

Set Permissions | Include Network as a user

Control Panel | Network | Name your Workgroup

reboot

WinXP:

Share drive(s)

Set Permissions | Include Network as a user

Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder options | View Tab | Simple File Sharing

Control Panel | Network | Name your Workgroup

reboot

10.1 and KDE:

System |Configuration | Configure Your Computer => Mandrakiva Control Center

Mount Points

Local Disk Sharing - enable mode you want

Samba Mount Points | Search Servers | Select System(s) | Name Windows drives: 'Win2K_C - WinXP-D - Windoze-E' etc. | Mount Drives | Name Samba domain same as Windows WorkGroup (You may have to search around to find all these options, as i don't have KDE up, but I remember them presenting pretty clearly)

Done

Now the drives are mounted, and you can read them.

It's gotta work, or your money back.

BD

try to check if XP's firewall prevents linux to get in, also try to use konqueror then at the location, type smb://<ip of xp> then when prompted with passwd, try to use the admin account

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I think i've tryed everything, is there anybody who actually succedded to network Linux & XP ?

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Xp's File sharing is inherited from Win2000 and a huge PITA unless:

Open Windows Explorer

Tools | Folder Options

View Tab

Scroll to the bottom, click Simple File Sharing (recommended)'

reboot and try your samba mount points again.

BD

try hitting F1 at the first screen and typing 'linux noapic' .

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Try F1, then 'linux expert text noapic'. Works most of the time, and gives you options you don't get without expert.

BD

damn, I just realized that the ISO's I had were the PPC version which I forgot are for macs.  DOH!!

 

I guess I can only net install cause I don't want to pay club fees.

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You can still download the community version. ???

BD

Can somebody explain the difference between the CDs I can purchase from Mandrake/Mandrivia and those I can purchase from cheapbytes  (http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart).

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The community version does not include some things that the official release does. Madwifi is one example.

BD

you did burn them as images and not just write the files to the disc, right?

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of course, using k3b, CD>burn CD image

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When I was playing with Gentoo, they suggested a floppy boot manager called smart boot manager. It has solved my problems with CD's not booting.

http://btmgr.webframe.org/

BD

Hi,

I am not able to compile tar.gz files.

I would get an Error

checking for X... no configure:

error: "You must have X installed"

 

not able to continue the installation.

 

If you run Xorg -configure to create and configure file,

i get a error [root@localhost xc]# Xorg -configure Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.Org for help. [root@localhost xc]#

 

Kindly Help

Regards

Apurva

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

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I'd suggest dropping back to the command prompt (if you're not there already(?)). Then tar -options file.tar.gz,

cd to the directory created,

and do a make

and then a make install.

BD

No, you don't (in fact, expert mode is deprecated, pixel's trying to do away with it entirely), but it's not called 'custom install option'. It's called 'manual disk partitioning', IIRC, it's right near the start of installation.

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I've done all my installs in text mode, and expert is a mandatory option to get where I need to go. Not so with a graphical install?

BD

Hmm.. it does seem to be the info I am looking for :)

 

Anyway, as soon as I have access to the computer with the data cable, I will try to do it.

 

Anyway, ArTee, if you are there, can you tell me the exact step by step method to compile a single module?

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Hi,

I've been reading along. If I understand what you're saying, for everytime I tar ndiswrapper or whatever, then do a make, followed by a make install, I'm recompiling my kernel also?

I don't get this compiling stuff at all.

BD

I just upgraded from 10.1 (from 3 CDs) to 10.2 (on 1 DVD), and it didn't give me any 'custom install option'.  I couldn't choose which partitions to format or not, the only questions it asked were about languages, timezones and stuff like that.  Apart from that it just went ahead and upgraded packages (without asking which ones).  My /home partition didn't get touched though, everything's still there (although of course it was backed up :))

As to the rest of the installation, well, it fixed some problems and made some interesting new ones!

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I think you have to select Expert mode to get the choice of boot partition, etc.

BD

All the COBOL that's still out there was the main reason for the Y2K scare.

Computer Associates, Accucobol and (formerly) MicroFocus all sell PC compilers to write new code or debug/modify old code under Windoze so as to not waste cycles on the mainframes until the code is ready for final test. They are also used to move apps off the mainframe when companies downsize their hardware.

COBOL was the first language that was supposed to run on any computer.

BD

Is there a particular reason you're trying to build ndiswrapper? You can find ndiswrapper-0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm (or another architecture) via google (I used rpmfind.net) and urpmi it, but as the post above says, you have to get rid of the 0.4 version that comes with 10.1.

Here's a couple of links which may help:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki...x.php/Uninstall

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki...hp/Installation

(This one covers make (if you still want to) and installation pretty thoroughly).

Remember to follow as many links as you can until you're confortable with it.

Good Luck

BD

Here's a recent post that should help, if you still need it (no [solved] showing):

http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=24628

BD

:D Thank you for the clarification. BTW, i didn't have the proper permissions to access carroll.cac.psu.edu/, so I googled "patch-2.5.9-2mdk.i586.rpm" and found it on RPMFind.net.

And I was able to figure out what 2. (Below) was trying to do and did it myself. Why don't the scripts reflect what's there after a standard install?

Also, Is there a link you can suggest that mentions category-names and package-names for programs I am likely to need but were not installed? I'm surprised that patch wasn't installed based on the program criteria I entered for install (basically everything except for some server options.)

For madwifi, I dowloaded "madwifi-cvs-current.tar.bz2" and did "make clean "and "make". Is there any reason why it would need to be patched?

(I have "madwifi-2.6.8-mm_and_later-040927.patch", but I don't know if I need it.)

Thanks again,

BD

:P

carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/main/patch-2.5.9-2mdk.i586.rpm

 

http://rpm.pbone.net/

 

Patching is something from the past (but ofcourse still used). In the years before fast internet people didn't send the whole source code but only the parts that where changed since the last version. With patch the changed bits where added to the source code. (http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=p/patch)

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I've installed 2.6.8.1-12 as well as the source, and I'm now playing with madwifi. After I extracted the latest tarball, I needed to run install.sh from /madwifi/patches/2.6, but it fails thrice:

1. because the script uses 2.6 for the version, instead of 2.6.8.1-12mdk-i586-up-1GB . Changing that solved the "missing /lib/modules/2.6/build/drivers/net/wireless directory' failure

2. now I get "cp: cannot stat `../../hal/linux/*.inc' No such file or directory"

+ " /*.opt_ah.h "

+ " /*.hal.o.uu "

3.

PATCH()

{

patch -N $1 < $2

}

errors out: "install.sh: line 24: patch command not found."

I think I can puzzle out 2. (so as to not have to type out install.sh ), but 3 appears to be telling me I don't have the "patch" command.

Is this correct? Where do I get it?

Tx,

BD

Hi Steve:

I hope you're still following this post.

I have 10.1 Download, and having heard that it doesn't include madwifi, I can't do what you've said, but i have some advance questions:

1. When you add Source, does it create a madwifi directory, or is madwifi there only in the Official 10.1?

2. Is it actually in /?.

3. if it's NOT there at all, how do I get the mdk-blessed version, and

4. is it still 0.9?

Thanks,

BD2K

If you're using a Mandrake kernel, you have the support. Before you can build the driver, you need the kernel source installed:

 

urpmi kernel-source-2.6

 

cd madwifi

make

cp ath/ath_pci.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

cp ath_hal/ath_hal.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

cp net/80211/* /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

depmod -a

modprobe ath_pci

 

Read the README file in the madwifi directory for more help that you should be able to follow.

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