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[Prem0]

I wanted to thank everyone on your great posts for the ndiswrapper install. I found this forum on google and am relatively new to fedora and linux in general. Thanks to the posts in this forum I was able to get my linksys wpc54g to work on the first try.

Thanks again and I will be reading this forum from now on

[ewdi]

you welcome, the community is ready to help :) and glad to help

[Jman]

You're welcome.

Moved to Suggestions & Feedback.

[Harryc]

I wanted to thank everyone on your great posts for the ndiswrapper install. I found this forum on google and am relatively new to fedora and linux in general. Thanks to the posts in this forum I was able to get my linksys wpc54g to work on the first try.

Thanks again and I will be reading this forum from now onCan you point me to the thread that made this possible? Fedora core 2 does not see my WPC54G at the hardware level.

[superbnerd]

just use the forum's search feature at the top

[ghaefb]

It's good to know that...

[Harryc]

just use the forum's search feature at the topYou've got to be kidding me right? Searched for ndiswrapper WPC54G...no help. I did that before posting.

[superbnerd]

search for just WPC54G, I did that before I post and got about five threads

[earobinson111]

ya this form and linuxquestions.com got linksys card working 2

[earobinson111]

Thanks to everyone this forum is the best

[Harryc]

search for just WPC54G, I did that before I post and got about five threadsSaw those...no help. Anyone else want to tell me to do a forum search? Again, earobinson111 can you point me to some help on this or better yet outline some basic steps that you took? Exact link to driver used and a sentence about ndiswrapper version used along with your kernel version would be great. Thanks.

[imdeemvp]

I wanted to thank everyone on your great posts for the ndiswrapper install. I found this forum on google and am relatively new to fedora and linux in general. Thanks to the posts in this forum I was able to get my linksys wpc54g to work on the first try.

Thanks again and I will be reading this forum from now on


you can also find a lot of info about every distro in www.distrowatch.com fedora is listed there too :D

[Harryc]

I fixed the problem with the WPC54G.

Step 1.) Remove WPC54G from machine, place on hard surface
Step 2.) Take a 5lb. Sledgehammer in your right hand
Step 3.) Smash the crap out of that POS card.
Step 4.) Insert newly (eBay) purchased Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA wireless card with Lucent chipset.
Step 5. ) Boot up and run 'system-config-network'
Step 6. ) Done.

Happy endings.....;).

[imdeemvp]

Way to go Harryc.....i tell you ebay.com has some good stuff the works for linux!

[Ned]

I fixed the problem with the WPC54G.

Step 1.) Remove WPC54G from machine, place on hard surface
Step 2.) Take a 5lb. Sledgehammer in your right hand
Step 3.) Smash the crap out of that POS card.
Step 4.) Insert newly (eBay) purchased Orinoco Classic Gold PCMCIA wireless card with Lucent chipset.
Step 5. ) Boot up and run 'system-config-network'
Step 6. ) Done.

Happy endings.....;).

Similar to the "How to fix your Asus motherboard" procedure then ;)

WTG Harry :D

Ned

[Harryc]

Similar to the "How to fix your Asus motherboard" procedure then ;)

WTG Harry :D

NedAh, you've read my procedures before then :). This was not my proudest moment ;)

[Ned]

Ah, you've read my procedures before then :). This was not my proudest moment ;)

Many moons ago Klondikekit recommended that procedure for my asus motherboard too :p

Anyway, your solution is far more satisfying than selling the old card on eBay :D

Ned

[Harryc]

Klondikekit ...wow that was many moons ago :). Good seeing you here. Cheers.

[Elc0chin0]

Well I went through the 5 steps and now I can't seem to fit the card back in that little hole on my laptop. What did I do wrong?

That said, I found Prem0's web site, very helpful.

Most of the steps worked. The part that didn't work was not a flaw in this direction. The part that was flawed was the drivers.

First, to identify the PCI ID of your card you type in;

lspci -n

this was a long list. At the bottom was the WPC54G card I have (14e4:4320). I downloaded the (windows only) executable. Then took the .inf and .sys files and transported them via floppy to my Fedora box.

I then the 'ndiswrapper -i INFfile' command to install the .inf files.

To check the status of my installed drivers 'ndiswrapper -l' listed the following;

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 hardware not present
bcmwl5 hardware present, fuzzy

I went through with the configuration of the wlan0 etc. I haven't yet re-booted the machine but it doesn't appear that the drivers listed worked.

I went to the ' Redhat/Fedora packages can be found here.' from the WiKi page and get completely lost. There are no files specifically for Fedora Core 2.

I would really like to use Fedora on my wireless with the CARD I bought - as sad as that may seem to the ornioco (whatever) card users. If I wanted one I'd buy one.

Besides going to that extreme does anyone have any reliable workable doable configuration suggestions. No 5 steps or buy ornioco - PLEASE!

[crackers]

Unfortunately, you've stumbled across one of the reasons why the pundits loudly decry that Linux isn't ready for "primetime:" there's not full hardware support. And since there support's not there, there aren't as many users. And because of that (relatively) small number, the hardware manufacturers have nothing to gain by adding support for Linux.

You have three choices:
1) Give up on Linux because you want the hardware
2) Give up on the hardware because you want Linux
3) Really, really dig in and get your hardware working

[imdeemvp]

well there are sellers like www.computergeeks.com that list hardware under linux and i visited them just to see what hardware is good

before i knew all my hardware was supported by linux and this is stuff i purchased maybe 2 years ago but i would rather give up my hardware :D

[sayonara]

Up until very recently Linux compatibility didn't really concern me. Now however, it's the first thing that I check. Unfortunately since I'm stuck with so much non-compatible hardware it's just another reason to keep windows somewhere on my HD.

I know that there's a number of Linux compatibility lists but is there any kind of petition where people can state that from now on they will only buy Linux certified hardware? Maybe this might get some notice.

[Elc0chin0]

Maybe in Fedora Core 99 they might recognize this issue and begin to do something. There is a lot of "good" hardward out there for the masses that is mainly supported by Windows. Sorry to offend the hard core out there, but I do a lot of impulse shopping at Best Buy. It's relatively inexpensive and I don't wait for a week to get what I want.

The problem now is not so much finding the Ornico Gold card 802.11g but trying to make it work with the Linksys 802.11g Access Point. I don't know how many of you out there have one of these but if you're running XP, there is an install method NOT mentioned in their "luser's guide'..

You have to hard wire the computer to the AP and access one of their web sites to install the proper drivers.

I don't know if it would even work with an Ornico.

Thanks for everyone's assistance.

I guess I just have to wait for Linux to get their act together and build something that is userful to end users and not just a toy for hard core geeks.

BTW - I use Linux at work and at home hard wired. When I've got a wireless system that really sux because Linux only makes connectivity for one type of product.

[Elc0chin0]

Ok folks here's the deal. I followed the directions to the point that I completely overlooked some of the obvious.

The drivers for my WPC54G care are on the CD it came with. All I did was find the .inf and .sys files, copy them from the cd to a floppy. Although I probably could have just mounted the cd on the linux box and did the 'ndiswrapper -i file.inf' and it would have loaded.

So for those of you looking around for the drivers and you have the original cd's your wireless nic came with look there first before going to the WiKi list.

I'm not real sure but I think I got it working. Still up2dating crap.

If you were like me and followed the links to the WiKi page to find the drivers for your WPC54G card then you'll have to uninstall them.

ndiswrapper -l

this lists out all the ones you attempted to install but probably didn't work.

just type

ndiswrapper -e (name of incorrect driver you installed)

the driver should read "lsbcmnds.inf" for the WPC54G card

now go ahead and issue 'modprobe ndiswrapper'

if nothing happens you're good to go. so far.

now at the command prompt type 'dmesg | grep ndiswrapper'

you should see something that says 'ndiswrapper [version] V loaded'

there might be a lot of other stuff but as long as that is there you're getting close.

Now here's where I get lost - the directions say 'You should then see the following message in system log:'

Whoa! Where is the system log?

I did a find on syslog. NOPE! Not that one. Something a little bit more descriptive than that general statement would prove MORE helpful.

Anyway if you're like me then you're lost but don't quit. That's really not that important unless you want to fell all warm and fuzzy. Otherwise truck on.

now if you type in at the command line;

iwconfig

you should see a lot of stuff that looks important...

ie

wlan0 - followed by a lot of stuff that will tell you your probably connecting.

But not yet.

now type in 'iwlist wlan0 scan'

this will try and find your access point. If it does you will certainly know it by the results this command will render.

now just follow the directions as there listed and you will have no problems.

thank you to who ever it was that gave me the three options. Make it work keep ringing in my head.

[Elc0chin0]

Well since yesterday I've loaded ndiswrapper twice. I realized my grup was loading the wrong kernel. Ok my fault.

I reloaded the drivers and everything worked as stated.

But when I tried to connected it just won't do it.

On boot up it looks like it's trying to connect but I get some message that says that ndiswrapper isn't I don't know...

The thing is it's just not connecting. (using DHCP that is)

Then I thought what if I give it a static IP.

It took the static IP, but I may as well be standing in a glass bubble cause I can't ping the AP.

So here's the question of the day, when I first set this up the in older kernel 6 (say) I think I'm on 8 now. In the directions it states that if you use the command gnome-network-preferences it should create the file ifcfg-eth1 in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory. never happen.

So I just cp the ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-wlan0 and then edited that.

Now in the installation guide there is no mention of using the command gnome-network-preferences.

How do I configure the ifcfg-wlan0 file and how can I make the gnome-network-preferences command create it?