SpeedTouch 121g + ndiswrapper

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Hi,
I’m new here, and I’m also a new user of Linux. I am currently using OpenSUSE 11.0.
I have had some trouble installing my USB-wifi-card. It’s a SpeedTouch 121g, an USB dongle. Connecting through ethernet works fine, but the problem is that my modem is quite far away from my computer, so ethernet is not really an option. Wifi works fine on Windows XP SP2 (I am using a dual-boot system). I have used Ubuntu 8.04 in the past, but I didn’t manage to setup my wireless lan here either. I have installed ndiswrapper and the wireless tools via YaST2.

Also, I have managed to install the drivers:

Ndiswrapper -i /path to/driver/BT4501g.inf

When I use the command:

Ndiswrapper -l

The driver gets listed. After using the command:

modprobe ndiswrapper

There is no general improvement. Also, the command:

iwlist wlan0 scan

Only lists my ethernet card.
The modem I’m using is a SpeedTouch 716g.

Thanks in advance,

Plinders

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If ndiswrapper -l gives you a “device present” response, then everything is OK with the firmware and the driver. Now you only need to go to YaST and setup a network connection using your newly installed driver. YaST/Network Devices/Network Settings/Add → wireless → put in ndiswrapper as your driver, provide your ESSID, WPA/WEP and everything else as required, select “activate at boot with Network Manager” → Finish. After a reboot, you should get the green network icon to the right of your taskbar.
Greetz and good luck!:wink:

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OK!

Thanks, I didn’t think of that :slight_smile:
I was thinking that I was doing something wrong when the modprobe command didn’t show any improvement.
I’ll give it a try, and if it works, or if it doesn’t, I’ll post here.

plinders

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did you do

ndiswrapper -ma

which writes the module alias configuration ?

Andy

5

I’m still having problems. After configuring the card in YaST, YaST loads the new config, and then tries to download “repomd.xml” from this site: “Download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/repodata/repomd.xml”. After this I clicked “skip”, due to the fact that I don’t have internet yet. After this, YaST deleted the config. Because I don’t have an ethernet cable of 10 metres long, I couldn’t download the file via SUSE, so I downloaded the file via windows, and copied it to my linux partition, but that didn’t work.

@Deltaflyer: Yes, I did. But it didn’t help.

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then tries to download “repomd.xml”
if this happens, turn off any repo’s & just leave the dvd active

Andy

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How should I turn repo’s off?

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YaST - Software - Software Repositories go through them & un-check the enabled box

Andy

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Just installed 121G using ndiswrapper two days ago without any problems. Make sure you bring up the wlan0 interface before issuing the iwlist command:


sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan
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Well, I can get to the stage that my wireless card stays in the YaST window, ndiswrapper is shown after the:

lsmod

command, but everytime I try to configure a connection in Knetworkmanager, Knetworkmanager crashes, so I can’t configure a connection. What can I do?

Also, the command

iwlist wlan0 scan

and

iwconfig

Still don’t show any results.

Plinders

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In fact,

iwconfig wlan0 up

Doesn’t even find my card. Do I have to do something with the firmware?