Guest TrjnBBaller21 Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 I have a TEW-423PI wireless network card and tried using ndiswrapper and the windows driver from the cd. That didnt work. I also used driverloader for the card and it recognizes the card but wont allow me to connect and shows 1 bar as the signal.... Can anyone please help....either with a driver or a way to make it work with driverloader...thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 I found this page. Try it out. Why not post a step by step as to what you are doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TrjnBBaller21 Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Thanks but that driver is for a different model and a wired nic card. I need one for mine which is wireless. the wired card in my computer works no problem. well i go to system configurations. then the network tab and click the first choice of adding a new network item. i select wireless adapter and the window comes and says add new driver or use ndiswrapper. i select use ndiswrapper and it tells me to choose a windows driver for it. i select the one on the disk for the card and then it says unable to find the ndiswrapper interface. The other way i tried was by installing driverloader i followed the steps it gave me. Then went to wireless network choice in config. it shows the wireless network i have at the house but with 1 bar signal and wont connect when i click connect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 What version of Mandrake/Mandriva are you using? Have you tried this? http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawi...x.php/Main_Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TrjnBBaller21 Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 I'm using Mandriva 2006....i tried using the driver it told me to use on that site...and a message box pops up thats says no device supporting this ndiswrapper is present Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 14, 2005 Report Share Posted December 14, 2005 Mandriva 2006 Free doesn't have ndiswrapper or madwifi included, this only comes with Powerpack and higher. Are you using Free or Powerpack? If free, use the ndiswrapper link I posted above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TrjnBBaller21 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 im using the powerpack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 What driver are you using? Is it the Windows XP driver? This should be what you should use in conjunction with ndiswrapper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TrjnBBaller21 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 I've tried using the windows xp driver off the cd and the driver on the list on the ndiswrapper site neither on will work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 OK, are you still using the GUI to configure it? Or have you tried the ndiswrapper link I sent and tried it from the command line? I'd like you to try from the command line, and then post the output you see on screen so we can try and narrow it down a bit. Error messages would be helpful. Whilst GUI's are great, they lack a lot of information, and I have particularly found it better following the ndiswrapper guides found at the link I posted before. Here it is again: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawi...x.php/Main_Page follow the installation instructions. You don't have to worry about compiling since it's already installed. You need to follow the guides to get it working. So from the installation page, you will be starting with: ndiswrapper -i filename.inf where filename.inf is the driver from your Windows XP driver CD for that card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TrjnBBaller21 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 ok i've got my driver loaded and my wireless connection shows up under wireless on config menu but it wont let me connect to the network Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 Is the Wireless Access point using WPA or something that is securing it? Have you configured this? If not, suggest you try this. Also on the link I provided. However, I'd be tempted to make sure the access point isn't secured with WPA or something, ie, full unsecured access to get it working, and then secure it later following the HOWTO's at the ndiswrapper site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TrjnBBaller21 Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 there is no restrictions on it....i followed all the steps on that site and it still doesnt work...i'll try it again tomorrow...thanks for all the help though....its much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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