ndiswrapper with Belkin Pre-N on OpenSuse 11 Problems

Hi,

I have installed this card on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mepis, and on Fedora (Fedora required a custom kernel with the 4k stack limit disabled). Does OpenSuse have the 4k stack enabled? So I have a decent about of experience with linux, installing my network card, and KDE3; but I have little experience with OpenSuse and KDE4.

OpenSuse 11 looks awsome and I’d like to get this card working on it. I don’t have internet on the computer that I’m trying to install my wireless card on until I get my card working.

The problem is that I can’t detect or connect to any networks after installing the driver…

Here are the steps I took to try to install.
The ‘#’ just means I typed it in the terminal with root.

su -

ndiswrapper -i netani.inf

ndiswrapper -l

netani : driver installed
device (17CB:0001) present

depmod -a

modprobe ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper -m

{
YaST -> Network Devices -> Network Settings
I select “AGN100 802.11 a/b/g True MIMO Wireless Card”, then press edit
I type “ndiswrapper” in “Module Name” (under the Hardware tab). Then I press next twice (leaving everything else as default).
Then I press finish.
}

rcnetwork restart

{
then I open KNetworkManager/KDE3, since YaSt closed it when I pressed finish.
I go to “New connection …” then wlan0.
The list of Essid is black. I even try typing in the name of my Essid (which currently has encryption disabled) and then “Connect & Save”, but after about 10 secons af the icon being that purple gear, it goes back to the grey globe.
}

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1 ) make and model of wireless device.
Belkin Pre-N F5D8000
pci network card

2 ) driver version in use

ndiswrapper -l

netani : driver installed
device (17CB:0001) present

3 ) any error message.

dmesg | egrep ‘ath|wifi|hal’

Doesn’t display anything. I’m not sure if that’s a problem.

4 ) what you have tried to rectify the problem.
Fooling around with the settings in YaST and KNetworkManager. A clean install. Browsing through the forums.
I tried setting “Firewall Zone” in the “Network Settings” in YaST to “External Zone” from “Firewall Disabled”.
I tried disabling the YaST firewall and Novell AppArmor.

5 ) any trouble-shooting guide you have tried to follow.
Ndiswrapper - openSUSE
Ndiswrapper howto - openSUSE

6 ) openSUSE version
11 with KDE 4 from the cd

7 ) type /sbin/lspci -v" in a terminal; copy and paste the section that identifies your wireless card and it’s chipset.
‘lspci -nnv’ before install ndiswrapper
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Airgo Networks Inc AGN100 802.11 a/b/g True MIMO Wireless Card [17cb:0001] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Airgo Networks Inc AGN100 802.11 a/b/g True MIMO Wireless Card [17cb:0001]
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at 60080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128]
Memory at 60000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

lspci -nnv after install ndiswrapper
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Airgo Networks Inc AGN100 802.11 a/b/g True MIMO Wireless Card [17cb:0001] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Airgo Networks Inc AGN100 802.11 a/b/g True MIMO Wireless Card [17cb:0001]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 16
Memory at 60080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at 60000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper

8 ) if it is a usb device type lsusb in a terminal;copy and paste the result
Not a usb, it’s a pci network card.

Any ideas?

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Oh, this looks important,
YaST → Network Devices → Network Settings
it says my network card “AGN100 802.11 a/b/g True MIMO Wireless Card” isn’t connected…

Nevermind, I got it to work. I went through all the steps on a fresh install more carefully, slowly, and with some Suse experience. That did the trick.

Sorry for the wastefull post.

It’s not a wasteful post, someone else may get some ideas from this,if they are having similar problems

Andy