Trying to get a wireless card working...

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 26 19:16:50 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:19:15PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>
>>I have a PCI Netgear WG311v3 in one of my boxes, and I *should* be able
>>to get it working with ndiswrapper, but something's not working.  I
>>installed the driver with ndsiwrapper, and it said that it installed the
>>driver and that the hardware is present.  Goody ;-)  However...
>>
>>When I run iwconfig, I see three interfaces - lo, eth0 and sit0.  The
>
>Did you install the MS-Windows XP driver rather than another version? 
>I've seen behaviour like that which you are describing when an MS-Windows 
>2000 driver was loaded instead.

That's good thought, but unfortunately, I do have the right driver
installed.  I updated the pci.ids file (which on Debian lives in
/usr/share/misc/) too, but that produced no change.  Disappointing.
Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William

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