Opensuse 10.3 Ndiswrapper

Hallo everybody!

I have a D-Link DWL-610 PCMCIA W-Lan card for my notebook (RTL8180 chipset). To get it to work, I installed ndiswrapper and configured it, following the instructions in the opensuse.org Wiki. But somehow, this won't work.

In the YaST network configuration, I go to "add device" (mybe it's called different, I'm haviong a german system, so I don't know the english menues. So, I go to where you can add new network devices... ). I see that there are already 2 devices specified: One of them is the build-in network device for cable conneections. This one is working fine.
The second one is called "ethernet network-card" with the notice "Configuration not possible, kernel-device not available".

So, I go to "add new device" to add my PCMCIA-card. I set "Type of device" to "wireless", "mudul name" to "ndiswrapper" and check the "PCMCIA"-Box. At this point, the "modul name" input fiels gets greyed out, but the "ndiswrapper" entry stays in it. after that, I set "activate device" to "if hot-plugged", "dynamic adress" to DHCP, put in the ESSID and the WEP-key of my wireless network and save the whole configuration.

Now I got a new network device in my list, called "wireless network-card". the device name is "wlan-wlan-bus-pcmcia". And there it sais "activate automatically when booting", which is strange because in the configuration, I said "activate when hot-plugged".

Now, neither hot-plugging nor rebooting the system activates the card. the little led stay dark. WTF is wrong. typing "ndiswrapper -l" in the console shows "net8180: driver installed", which is good, I guess. But "iwconfig" shows only two devices: eth0 (the build-in device for cable connections) and "lo" (some sort of local loop). No "wlan0" or "wlan-wlan-bus-pcmcia", which I could activate.

So, does anyone see where in my configuration the fault is? Or do you need more information? I'm thankful for every hint.

Thanks in advance,
harms

Hallo everybody!

I have a D-Link DWL-610 PCMCIA W-Lan card for my notebook (RTL8180 chipset). To get it to work, I installed ndiswrapper and configured it, following the instructions in the opensuse.org Wiki. But somehow, this won't work.

In the YaST network configuration, I go to "add device" (mybe it's called different, I'm haviong a german system, so I don't know the english menues. So, I go to where you can add new network devices... ). I see that there are already 2 devices specified: One of them is the build-in network device for cable conneections. This one is working fine.
The second one is called "ethernet network-card" with the notice "Configuration not possible, kernel-device not available".

So, I go to "add new device" to add my PCMCIA-card. I set "Type of device" to "wireless", "mudul name" to "ndiswrapper" and check the "PCMCIA"-Box. At this point, the "modul name" input fiels gets greyed out, but the "ndiswrapper" entry stays in it. after that, I set "activate device" to "if hot-plugged", "dynamic adress" to DHCP, put in the ESSID and the WEP-key of my wireless network and save the whole configuration.
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Have a read here

/Geoff

Thanks for the fast replie, but that didn't solve it. My ndswrapper version is the latest.

Ah, and I just noticed: When I reconfigure the device, the "ndiswrapper" entry in the "module-name" field is gone, and the field is still greyed out, so I can't put it back in. Also, the "PCMCIA" checkbox is gone... What's going wrong?

Do you meanwhile have a solution for it? I just took an old Dell Laptop and installed OpenSuse 10.3 with Gnome. The PCMCIA card has been detected and is shown as WLAN device in the network section. But it's not switched on. Could you help?

Stephan

Do you meanwhile have a solution for it? I just took an old Dell Laptop and installed OpenSuse 10.3 with Gnome. The PCMCIA card has been detected and is shown as WLAN device in the network section. But it's not switched on. Could you help?

Stephan
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I'm in the same boat except I have KDE. My card is detected and named, but won't run. I've tried the advice of many posts across the web, but must be missing something. My card is a Netgear WG511 v1 though. Be sure to post any solutions if you make it work.

thanks, Steve

ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_10.3/ add the following to your yast source install the driver and use this native version RTL8180 and see if it works.