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Make sure you stop all unnecessary services too.

If native drivers doesn't work out for you, you'll probably want to uninstall the version of ndiswrapper that you have and replace it with the latest version. Check the ndiswrapper thread in tips and tricks to see if that helps.

Check your printer on the linuxprinting database. That site also has lots of articles that will help you out.

ndiswrapper has some support for this. It's probably worth checking their website.

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.

Type dmesg at a command prompt and look for relevant lines (there will be lots of stuff returned by dmesg - you could try "dmesg | grep -i ndiswrapper" (without the quotes) but it may lose some important info).

You can find the recommended drivers (and loads more info) at linuxprinting.org. If you have any more problems with it, please post back.

Does all other web access work, have you checked which ports msn uses, and if they are open in your firewall? How doesn't it work? Fail at signin? What version of GAIM are you using?

Is the router set to assign addresses by dhcp - if so I suppose it could be causing a problem.

ndiswrapper section in tips and tricks - may be a little out of date. To get ndiswrapper fully wokring you may have to get the latest version as source code from their website and compile it.

Have you followed the advice over in tips and tricks? If so, it might be worth grabbing the latest version of ndiswrapper and giving that a go.

Check out the pinned link on internet connection sharing at the top of this networking forum. You'll probably also be interested in reading the howto on samba that can be found here. Please post back if there's any problems.

Where did you try to untar it to? You should aim for somewhere in your home directory although you will probably need to be root to install the firmware anyway.

Have you checked to make sure that the file shares still work to that same windows machine? Just want to rule that out first :D

USB modems generally cause problems. If it's not a usb modem then I'd try using kppp to see if that can find it.

It's not particually elegent, but you could run an ssh daemon on the server. The windows machines can then connect to this and launch the connection.

kppp is probably the way to go then. I'd check your security level, firewall (probably causing the problem as it is probably configured for ethernet) and that you have the correct dns servers in /etc/resolv.conf

You'll probably want to add that to /etc/bashrc (or your distros equivalent) - if you run it as a user you'll only see processes due to that user, run it as root to see everything thats going on. There's some interesting stuff on that link - but aliasing something to ld is just plain stupid!!

Could be pings and your machine replying to them?

Unless you're running a mail server, I'd turn postfix off - no need to have it running.

I tend to use ntop for things like this.

Were you doing it as root? (Silly question I know).

You'll need to connect to an ADSL modem at some point.

Running it now but can't really tell any difference - except that it breaks the ish theme slightly (probably specific to running the i686 verson on x86_64)!

It sounds like the card is configured OK, so I'd double check that the AP are ready to give you an IP address (have dhcp enabled, aren't filtering by MAC address). If they have them, it could be worth checking the AP's logs.