mystified Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 How hard is it to set up wireless in Ubuntu using ndiswrapper? (Using WEP) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FX Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Not sure about ndiswrapper because I've always been lucky to have the right chipset for the madwifi driver which usually gets installed on install. I know it is not very specific mystified, but here is a search over at the Ubuntu forums with "ndiswrapper wep" http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=5422971 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nchancock Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 (edited) Not hard at all, I got it set up in just a few minutes. The only trick was that since I was using open key mode, I had to use "sudo iwconfig wlan0 key open ###########" instead of without the 'open' part. Other than that, it was just: 1) install the deb from synaptic 2) get the driver from hp 3) sudo ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver/inf 4) sudo ndiswrapper -l 5) sudo ndiswrapper -m 6) sudo modprobe ndiswrapper 7) sudo iwconfig ... no problems at all and I have a Broadcom at that. I'm actually excited for the 2.6.17 kernel branch that has the bcmxx driver in the kernel itself. I think it will make things a lot easier for people coming to Linux for the first time. No more dinking around with ndiswrapper, the installer should config it without any intervention. Nice for newbs. EDIT: one thing I should mention ... ndiswrapper doesn't play nice with the smp kernel. I had to go to the non-smp kernel to stop the lock-ups. Bummer. Write back with issues. :) Nate Edited May 20, 2006 by nchancock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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