Help with NDisWrapper & WMP54G

[wolfdreamer]

I recently downloaded and installed a fresh copy of Fedora Core 3, on booting I found that Fedora does not support my Linksys WMP54G wireless nic, so I downloaded ndiswrapper untarred, installed, and pointed it to the Linksys driver on my CD, there were 2 drivers one called rt2500.inf and bcmwl5.inf the latter seems to be what Linksys supports on their site. If I use the rt2500.inf I am able to get the driver up but once I try to bring the device up my system halts. For Instance the first time I tried I was able to bring device up safely but once I rebooted the boot stalls on trying to bring up network, and every time I try to reboot it hangs. If I move the ndiswrapper.ko under /lib/modules/2.6xxxxxx/misc my system will boot but I still cant get wlan0 to come online. I am using ndiswrapper 0.12. Any Ideas or suggestions???????

[imdeemvp]

This tutorial may help: http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/e_a_graham_jr/ndis/

[wolfdreamer]

I followed those instructions when I do the ifup wlan0 command my system completly hangs I have tried both drivers bcmwl5 and rt2500 and both hang the system.

[wolfdreamer]

does anyone know of any know issues with the WMP54G and Fedora 3, I have installed this device on linux systems without a problem

[joe_0]

If it's any help - I have mine working on FC3. :-)

I followed that tutorial until where it starts using redhat-config-network when I noticed the card on the list of hardware and used it (rather than following the instructions ;) ). So basically, I never had to use 'ifup wlan0'. I've just tried it and get:

[root@localhost ~]# ifup wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.

Determining IP information for wlan0... done.


Sorry that's probably not much help.

[teelr]

There is a pretty good tutorial on the ndiswrapper site that you may need to check out. Sounds to me like the windows driver (the .inf) uses a stack size greater than 4k and hangs your system. The instructions on the ndiswrapper wiki cover this exact issue. Let me know if this works for you...