The cds i talk about is the cd that they give me with the notebook....it's windows xp and the device drivers. I'll try looking for other drivers....let's hope it'll work

....i looked on the acer website (i got an acer travelmate 2600)....and there's no driver to download for my notebook model. In addiction, there aren't tecnical specification, either. So, i only know the chipset of my wireless card but not the model. My question is: Is this enough? does all the cards with the same chipset work with the same driver? i dunno....can anybody tell me?

thanks and bye all

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I found this link that has all the drivers for the 2600. There's two different wireless drivers, depending on what version of wireless you have. Maybe one of them will work.

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thank you for the link...i wonder why in the european acer site i didn't find something like that ??:

Anyway.....now it seems to work
I think it wasn't a driver problem....i simply forgot to copy all the files from the "Driver" folder of the cd into the hard disk. I thought ndis wrapper needed only the .inf files, but it needs even the .sys and .cat

now i'll try on....but this 2 lines make me feel great


bye

PS
i think i'll need some explanation about wlan configuration...but here it might be OT

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IT WORKS!!!!!
it's great.....thank you all...i love you

bye

wireless-robby

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hey Robby (sorry wireless-robby..hehe) i was wondering, after installing the driver what commands did u use to configure ur LAN (or connecting to the net). coz all i did in mine was

dhclient wlan0
iwconfig wlan0

used those two commadns and it worked. how about urs.

cheers,
masum

i don't have dhcp enabled in my network (4 pcs only), so i don't need dhclient. I installed iwconfig and others wireless tools. I used iwconfig both with the command line mode and the kde's graphical configurator. I tried a dozen of possible configuration (the basic thing t understand is how to put the right thing in the right place ) and finally worked. Fortunately, we got only the wep encryption on our wlan....i don't know if i could configure it for a wpa or radius

see you o

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Ok I finally got it working, here's what I did,
Slackware 10.1, with a broadcom chip in the wireless nic.

First the driver I had didn't work when I tried to add it to the ndiswrapper, so I got a packaged version of the driver from http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/e/sedlabs1/m5312.html

The page concentrates on just mandrake, but there is some general information there. Archive #2 was everything I needed at this point.

Next, I got the wireless_send_event error when I tried to modprobe.

To fix these, I recompiled the kernel with basic wireless support under networking, and, just to make sure, 4k stacks disabled.

Now, modprobe picked it up ok, but no luck with dhcpcd, so I installed iwtools.

When I did anything with iwconfig, it told me I needed a later version of wireless extensions, which I found out is a file that is compiled into the kernel, wireless.h

Version 18 is still in testing but the patch can be found http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/iw_we18-5.diff

Also whenever you update to version 18 of wireless extensions you have to recompile the kernel again, so maybe do it all at once. Remember though, this is what it took for me, so you might not have to, and non-final code in the kernel can be a bad thing.

After I updated to version 18 of WE I had to update wireless tools version 28 rc6 (still in beta testing version as well). After this, I just had to set the channel and the essid and I was in business with dhcpcd.

The page http://bryson.co.nz/files/ndiswrapper.html has some information about setting up a startup script for slack that might work in other distros as well.

That's how I did it! Hope this helps somebody somewhere. Thanks a lot guys.

Nice work goldsaturn25. Doesn't it feel just great? keep it up man.

Hi and thanks for all the advice which i have been following on the previous webpages.

I think i am very close to getting my Belkin Wireless card working with SUSE professional 9.0.

I get up to the stage whereupon typing ndiswrapper -l I get the message:

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

Unfortunatly! When i go to load the driver by typing:

modprobe bdiswrapper

I appears to work but my computer freezes a split second afterwards and i have to turn it off to restart! I was wondering is there an alternative way of loading the driver rather than with modprobe.

Thanks,

Chris

Hi Chris and welcome to GIDForums™.

The basic answer to your question is no. You could try to do an insmod, but it is the same command basically.

Is your computer 100% frozen? The reason I ask is that am messing around with one right now, that when I do a modprobe, it seriously slows down the computer but I am able to still look at things. If at all possible, can you get a dmesg typed in? This will give you some information as to what is going wrong.

Are you running on 32-bit? Also, what card do you have exactly?

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