I am using a belkin F5D7000 wireless card with ndiswrapper on fedora core 1.

I have installed the ndiswrapper and driver as detailed in the instructions that came with ndiswrapper.

When i run the command iwconfig, i get the following

wlan0
IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"beaver-ap" Nickname:"wombat.localdomain"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: E6:3E:67:8C:A6:33
Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-57 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

When i run the command ifconfig, i get this output.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:95:47:3C:3D
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1194527 (1.1 Mb) TX bytes:257289 (251.2 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0xc800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2096 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1620286 (1.5 Mb) TX bytes:1620286 (1.5 Mb)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:BD:F6:5A:4C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:684 (684.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Memory:cfff4000-cfff5fff

However when i run the command ifup wlan0 , i get the error message:

Cannot get driver information: No such device

Determining IP information for wlan0...Fail.

Please give ideas on how i can remedy this.

Thanks.

come on - can't anyone help me?

From your iwconfig output, your card is correctly configured. However from your ifconfig output you don't have an IP address assigned to wlan0. That is why your ifup wlan0 is complaining. There are a couple of things to do. First, take down your eth0 with ifdown eth0. If you have interfaces running at the same time it can cause problems. Second, get an IP address for your wireless with dhclient wlan0. If you get an IP address you should be able to see it with your ifconfig command. Then bring up wlan0.


You should wait 24 hours before bumping your post, and then a nice polite "bump" will do quite nicely.

it was close to 24 hrs. Thanks for the advice

in fact it was 30 hours

OK, so my math sucks. The fact remains that you missed the most important part of my message

Whining gets you nowhere.

it still don't work. the dhclient wlan0 command even returns an error!

Please post the error. It might shed a clue on what is going wrong. Also, have you disabled eth0 when you try to get an IP for wlan0?

The other thing to try would be to set a static IP address with ifconfig. If you do this, be sure to also set the gateway IP address to point to your router with the route command.

ok. here it is -

[root@wombat root]# dhclient wlan0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0pl2
Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:30:bd:f6:5a:4c
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:30:bd:f6:5a:4c
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Ugh. I've seen people with FC have this problem before, and unfortunately I haven't come across any solid answers. The symptoms are the same, the card can be properly configured but DHCP can't seem to connect. I honestly don't know if it is a FC configuration problem or if there is some incompatibility with ndiswrapper. There are a few things you could try however:

- Try a different version of ndiswrapper, particularly if you are using version 0.8. I have seen people fail miserably with 0.8 only to have 0.7 work on the first go. Others have no trouble with 0.8.

-Try a different Windows driver. If you are using the latest XP drivers, they may stand a higher chance of giving ndiswrapper fits.

- Try linuxant. Sometimes this works where ndiswrapper fails.

I was browsing LQ.org and saw your post. I solved this *just* a matter of minutes ago on FC2 with an Intel 2200 b/g under ndiswrapper-0.8. Have yet to write a script that does this cleanly, but here's a rough procedure:

Set up ndiswrapper & bring up iwconfig.
Take down other interfaces (eth0) and remove the default route.
dhclient is borked because it looks for /etc/dhclient-${INTERFACE}.conf, not /etc/dhclient.conf. Create the former file accordingly.
Also create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 containing the lines


DEVICE=wlan0
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR=
NETMASK=
GATEWAY=


Try issuing 'dhclient wlan0'. Just a guess here, as I had done a bunch of other things earlier that left the system scanning for hosts.
Watch your system logfile, and suddently I got a connection when I saw the line

dhclient: bound to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- renewal in XX seconds.

I am having problems setting up my wireless card. Here are some details

laptop: Dell d800
wireless card: Intel/Pro 2200BG
OS: Fedora Core 2

I have tried ndiswrapper version 8 and 9 but the system hangs and I can't do anything.
I am currently using ndiswrapper version 7 (I saw some saying that it worked for them as opposed to version 9 that hangs).
I got the driver from the ndiswrapper. There are two, a generic one from Intel and another from dell. The dell driver cases errors that I can see from /var/log/messeges. The other loads everything fine. Here are my steps after I compiled ndiswrapper version 7.

>ndiswrapper -i <path-to-w22n51.inf>
I checked and there are no errors at this point
>modprobe ndiswrapper
>iwconfig

When I check the /var/log/messeges There is an error saying can't find wlan0 configuration and if I try to set the essid and recheck iwconfig there are not changes. Also, if I try to set the key, I get segmentation fault and I have restart the computer.

I have also ran

>ndiswrapper -m

I have tried just about everything I found, including bringing down the eth0, puting ifcfg-wlan0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, different versions of ndiswrapper, different drivers from intel and dell, BUT NO LUCK, PLEASE HELP.

Thank you in advance