[solved]progress! please wpc54g wireless help

[bosele]

lynksys wpc54g pcmcia card

eth0 wired works /wlan0 does not

fresh install 2005.0 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 (havn't changed anything)

what i've done:

emerge wireless-tools
emerge ndiswrapper

installed driver bcmwl5 (for bcmwl5a everyting is the same)

ndiswrapper -l
installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

dmesg

ndiswrapper: using irq 11
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet divice 00:12:17:41:93:9f using driver bcmwl5
wlan0: encryption modes supported : WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/28/2003, 3.40.25.3) added
ndiswrapper (iw_set_encr:699): adding encryption key 1 failed (C0010015)


<changing order mode> "i've tried all commands from
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-125627-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-bcmwl5-start-0.h

tml but in don't remember the order in which i've tried them, never had any results"

ifconfig wlan0 up

iwconfig wlan0 key 1996166911 essid Miless
iwconfig wlan0 channel 13
dhcpcd wlan 0

</changing order mode>

wlan0 IEEE 809.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHZ Access Point 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:1346 B
Encryption key:1996-1669-19 Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm

Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:13778 Missed beacon:0

i cannot get the essid to change or find an access point
scanning for one never produces any result
my wireless card is on judging by the lights (both lights are on--link never flashes or

anything so, i'm afraid, no link)--. without modprobe ndiswrapperonly the power light comes on

now for my question

basically what do i have to do to get this to work?

:HOWTO: Ndiswrapper Wireless Setup" warned it was outdated so i have not (yet)DISABLED support

for SMP in kernel.do i still have to do this with my kernel and latest ndiswrapper?

can i get it working without editing /etc/modules or /etc/init.d or anything (i want to test

first before i loose track of everyting i've edited)

in what order do i have to use the commands for iwconfig?

would setting my ap to allow everyone without encryption, default essid make any difference?
(hasn't in the past btw)

any other thoughts?

and one more thing, since i use modprobe my system doesn't reboot correctly anymore.

root
reboot
system turns off
restarts but nothing happens (exept for a fan that goes nuts)
have to kill the power to boot correctly
and i can't seem to open teh wireless wiki page, which doesn't help

[golgo13]

As root, after you

[bosele]

thanks for your reply, i've tried to find the source of my misery by reading about 85 pages of wireless related stuff, and now i'm about ready to get clinically depressed.

Right now im seeing stars so the descriptions that follow might be a bit unclear.

1 for the life of me i cannot get ndiswrapper to start on boot anymore (idiots guide please)

2might something like "pcmcia-cs vs. hotplug" be at the root of my troubles *i think i've read something to this effect, but i can't be sure anymore* -my pcmcia card starts but doesn't seem to do anything productive, drivers are loaded hardware found- but it looks like something is "in between the two"

3 against my initial better judgement i've edited just about any file mentioned in any post and i've lost track.
What is the best way to just tear out everything network related, so i can start over.

4 what and in what order (and how if you have time) should i emerge to start correctly after "default" 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 setup (handbook 2005.0)

obviously i need help, so please

[golgo13]

I've emerged the following programs in order coldplug, hotplug, wireless-tools, and ndiswrapper.
Just for testing you might also want to turn encryption of at the AP and start from there.
I've just recently managed to get my Linksys card working so by no means am I an expert.

[bosele]

could you please tell me:

-IRQ your card uses
-Does card manager start when you boot?

[bosele]

after removing pcmcia-cs and some other stuff

iwconfig:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID: "Hello"

so progress at last

ah it even pings my router so i guess im good to go here

last question: please tell me from start to finish how to get ndwrapper to load on boot, i'm at a loss here. i just can't get it to work

[bosele]

i do not have /etc/module.autoload.d/

[Rad]