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Re: Ndiswrapper & Linksys WPC11 ver. 4



On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:44:34PM -0800, Anthony Simonelli wrote:
> I own an IBM Thinkpad Notebook T22 and I bought a 
> Linksys WPC11 ver. 4 wireless PC card for it.  I was
> running Fedora Core 3 and used Ndiswrapper to install
> the wireless card.  I got it working in minutes and I
> was able to configure it with RedHat's
> system-network-config utility to specify the WEP key
> and the SSID.  
> 
> Now I am running Debian Testing (Sarge) and decided to
> use Ndiswrapper for the card as well.  I installed
> Ndiswrapper, Ndiswrapper-Utils,
> kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-i386,
> kernel-source-2.6.8-2-i386 and used module-assistant. 
> I then installed the Linksys driver NET8180.INF and
> when I do a ndiswrapper -l  it displays that the
> driver is installed and the hardware is present.  I
> did a modprobe ndiswrapper and added an alias with
> ndiswrapper -m.  Now I don't know how to configure it
> because when i used it on Fedora, I used iwconfig
> wlan0 and used RedHat's system-network-config utility.
>  That command does not exist for some reason and I
> find a wlan0 displayed with ifconfig but I can't
> configure it.  
> 
> Anyone have any idea what steps to take and what I am
> doing wrong?  How do I configure the network interface
> wlan0 (ssid, wep key, etc.)?
> 
> 
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You find iwconfig in the wireless-tools package.

apt-get install wireless-tools

rgds

Runar


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