Re: Wireless network adapter: ndiswrapper loaded, but cannot connect to network

[Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com>]

Denis Papathanasiou(denis.papathanasiou@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> I have a Toshiba Satellite 2850 laptop running Debian kernel
> 2.6.18-4-686 with a Linksys wireless network card (pcmcia), model
> WPC54G  802.11g.
> 
> I followed the ndiswrapper installation instructions from this site --
> http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/wpc54g/ -- and everything succeeded.
> 
> That is, until I got to the final step, scanning for access points:
> 
> # iwlist eth1 scan
> eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device
> 
> According to iwconfig, the card is there (i.e., the modprobe of
> ndiswrapper worked), but not attached to any network:
> 
> # iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:""  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
>          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Encryption key:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.

Not enough info!

Does ifconfig show eth1?  Did you do an ifconfig or ifup eth1?

iwlist does not scan if the interface is not up, at least here it
doesn't.

What do you have in /etc/network/interfaces for eth1?

Wayne