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Linux Wireless >:o

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FatteyMattey

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Hey all -- Having a difficult time configuring my wireless in Linux.

Right now I'm just using a boot disk with Mepis on it. Before I forget to mention this... I'm a newbie when it comes to Linux.

wlan isn't recognized at all; it says it's not found.

I have found some good tutorials that I thought would help using ndiswrapper however it appears you need the windows driver that you use for your wireless adapter. Here's my problem:

I'm using an IBM Thinkpad R60 series laptop, and in the device manager it shows the adapter being: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection.

And when I view driver details it shows 3 files: NETw3x32.sys, NETw3c32.dll, and NETw3r32.dll.

When using ndiswrapper the file they're requesting is an .INF file, and I have no way of locating an INF file for my wireless card.

I dont know, maybe I'm headed in the wrong direction. Have any other ideas? I'm having a hell of a time.

Any help would be appreciated :confused:
 
I'd think there would be an inf file on the support web site, bundled in with the windows drivers for the wireless adapter.

Your experience sounds much like mine... but I did have an inf... and never did get it working with my Trendnet USB wireless adapter. Had to throw in the towel on that one. :(

I ended up with Win98 on the system. Just an Athlon 600 I use for internet / email / music out in my garage. I really wanted Linux on it, but had too many problems (not just wireless network), and '98 was just sooo easy and all it really needed.
 
Yeah it definitely can get frustrating... If having Linux is something you really want though you should keep plugging away at it. Maybe we could try and work through our problems together. People here have been extremely helpful over the years as well, I'd be lost without some of the advice I've gotten from here.
 
I spent about 8 hours trying to get Linux going on that PC. First, the ATI Rage128 card didn't work (locked up during Ubuntu Edgy install, right as graphics kicked in). OK, so I replaced that with an nVidia 5200... Next, the sound card didn't work right... I use Pandora for music, and Flash/Firefox locked up the system every time. I run Pandora/Firefox on 3 other Linux boxes, with no problems at all. The wireless was just an attempted bonus... I do have a spare Linksys WRT-54G with dd-wrt firmware on it, so wireless bridge mode is just an ethernet cable away... but since Pandora didn't work, that essentially killed the deal for me. I loaded Win98 and Firefox on there, Pandora works 100%, the Trendnet adapter was plug and play, and I am using the ATI Rage128 card with no issue. ;) Plus, it boots and shuts down in seconds (a minimal install of Win98 on a modest system can really be not too bad).

Ubuntu Feisty is supposed to have better wireless support, but that ndiswrapper trick is still strange to me. But for real fun, I got lm-sensors and coretemp working on my Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboard. That only took about 20 hours of work. LOL.

Linux is fun to tinker with, but to be honest, I still rely on XP to get work done.
 
Download the driver file from another computer, move it to the linux box, unarchive it, and then point it at the *inf file.
 
First off there's a native driver, http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ .
But if it's not in there already then it might be too hard to install, just look and see if it's there already.

For ndiswrapper I usually download the driver off the manufacturer site, then use some sort of setup extraction tool whose name escapes me atm to get the .sys and .inf files.
 
The ipw3945 (which I have in my laptop) is supported out of the box on Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I have never tried with mepis.

It is relatively easy to install the driver if it isn't included, and you have a hard line connection. But why not just use a distro that supports it out of the box?
 
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