Problems installing driver for TRENDnet Wireless USB Adapter TEW424UB

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I am beginner in Linux.

I have a problem with wireless USB adapter. The laptop is an old grinder, HP Compaq nx9010.

Control light is off, but the command lsusb gives me:

"Linux-0tdq: ~ # lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0457:0163 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp… Wireless LAN Adapter 802.11
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

I tried with ndiswrapper and windows driver. I tried the original driver CD that came with the adapter and the driver downloaded from the internet, page sis. But I have something like this:

"Linux-0tdq: / home / # ndiswrapper-i sis163u.inf Marcel
sis163u.inf couldn’t open: No such file t. directory at / usr / sbin / ndiswrapper line 219 "

Inf file I put in different folders. I searched the net but found no solution. Me do not see where mistakes!

Please, a solution … good … I would not want to change operating systems, but are not willing to buy additional hardware!

Many thanks … to understand that you have for beginners!

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Did you really cut and paste this? IMHO there are a lot of white spaces where they shouldn’t be and others are missing. Cut and paste neatly and put computers text between CODE tags please (that is select it and click the # button in the bar above the input field).

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Sorry for my English. Google helps me …
My mistake. That is right:

linux-0tdq:/home/marcel # ndiswrapper -i sis163u.inf
couldn’t open sis163u.inf: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 219

I do not have my laptop with me now. I hope I put the correct text from my computer, I saved the text into a text file. When I’ll have my laptop in my hand, I’ll check and confirm that one is correct.

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This looks much better. Next time, please do not use red, but CODE (the # sign) like this:

linux-0tdq:/home/marcel # ndiswrapper -i sis163u.inf
 couldn't open sis163u.inf: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 219

Then what does it mean? It means what it says. You tell ndiswrapper to use the file sis163u.inf * and it can not be found in the default place where ndiswrapper looks. And it looks in the place (working directory) where you are. And that is /home/marcel* (if I detect correctly from your shell prompt).

Now the question is: where do you have that file? I suppose /home/marcel is the home directory of the end-user you was before you “went root”. Now when sis163u.inf is downloaded in e.g. *nx9010-download *within /home/marcel, you should either do:

ndiswrapper -i nx9010-dowwnload/sis163u.inf

or

cd nx9010-download
ndiskwrapper -i sis163u.inf

I hope you get the picture. You must point to the file including where it is.

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Thanks for your advice. As soon as I will have my laptop in my hand, I will try.
I hope that I would succeed this time.

Thanks again.

I understand now how it work with code #.

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Nice lol! I hope the wireless will follow this path of success.

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I put the file sis163u.inf in folder home.And …

linux-815a:/ # ndiswrapper -i home/sis163u.inf
couldn't open home/sis163u.inf: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapp

:’(:’(

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Did you put it in home or in* /home*? This makes things not very clear.

In fact I did not ask you to move the file to another place. It is probably fine where it sits. I asked you to point to the correct directory when you call ndiswrapper.

Please prove that you do it correct by making the directory where the file is your working direrctory, show us it is there and then call ndiswrapper:

cd <directory where sis163u.inf sits>
ls
ndiswrapper sis163u.inf
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I do not understand what happened so … But it worked.

linux-815a:/home/marcel # ls
.Xauthority    .dmrc        .gconfd         .kde         .profile       .xine              Music        UNWLSDRV.EXE
.adobe         .emacs       .gnome2         .kde4        .pulse         .xinitrc.template  Pictures     Videos
.bash_history  .esd_auth    .gvfs           .local       .pulse-cookie  .xsession-errors   Public       bin
.bashrc        .fontconfig  .hplip          .macromedia  .skel          Desktop            SIS163u.CAT  public_html
.config        .fonts       .icedteaplugin  .mozilla     .vimrc         Documents          SiS163u.sys  sis163u.inf
.dbus          .gconf       .inputrc        .ooo3        .xim.template  Download           Templates


linux-815a:/home/marcel # ndiswrapper -i sis163u.inf
installing sis163u ...

And what I do now?

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I think you should serious try to understand this. You will have many problems in the future when you do not understand what directories are and how you address files in them.

Also when I see that you have all the files that belong to this module rigt in your home directory, I think you do not have any idea about organising your stuff. This should all be in a seperate directory with a name that tells you what it is. What you do is the same aas throwing all your books on the floor in a big room. How can you evevr find out what belongs together?

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I begin to understand. I did not know, do not understand, how directories are organized. Last time when I worked with commands from the console, was when I worked with DOS! It is a long time ago!
Adapter work Now! This is the first wireless message sent!
Interestingly: the driver downloaded from the SIS net page freezes screen and computer. The driver for Windows 98, that he came with the adapter, goes well.

Thank you for your patience with me. I work much with my PC until now but I was not interested in Linux. So, I am a beginner. Probably, I will longer avail on your help.:slight_smile:

Thanks again!

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Nice it works! Congratulations. The learning curve is a bit steep in the beginning, but try to read a bit about directory structure and simple shell scripting. Not that I want you to go writing your own scripts, but it teaches you how the basic system functions.

And when you want help, that is where we other openSUSE users volunteer to help you. :wink: