slackware 13.37

86278263789 · 10-09-2011, 08:44 AM

Hi

I'm not sure if this belongs in slackware or in networking...

Anyway, I'm a newbie and I've just installed slackware 13.37. I've spent a day and a half trying to get my wireless card to work with ndiswrapper. Only just found out I was trying to install the wrong package...

So I've finally managed to install ndiswrapper1-56. Managed to install the Windows driver, and it shows up fine with ndiswrapper -l. But I'm not sure what to do next...

When I try to bring up the eth0 interface it says
SICSIFFLAGS: operation not permitted

Any suggestions to put me on the right track?

Thanks.

Jef

TobiSGD · 10-09-2011, 08:49 AM

Are you root when trying this? Also, which chipset is your wireless card using?

86278263789 · 10-09-2011, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Are you root when trying this? Also, which chipset is your wireless card using?

Yes, I am doing this as root.

It is a prism54/ISL3890 card.

TobiSGD · 10-09-2011, 11:52 AM

The prism54 should run out of the box, the p54pci/p54usb modules that handle those devices are part of the kernel since 2.6.24, you shouldn't need ndiswrapper at all.

86278263789 · 10-17-2011, 12:58 PM

Hi,

The card is working now. It seems the prism54 drivers don't work with this particular card (SMC 2802W), so I had to use ndiswrapper.