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senzacionale
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hello!
Today i decide to use wireless connection on my notebook but i have big problemms with it.
Can someone tell me any good howto for wireless in notebook?
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thnx but my notebook isn't here
i have gerciom ego notebook and i can't fix ma wireless conection for it!
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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well it not not about the notebook you have, but the wirless card. do lspci if it is a pci card (probably). Find out which card it is, and then find the correct driver (by either googleing, or you can find it in this forum). Then follow the instruction in the Gentoo manual on the wireless. There are plenty of threads in the forum also.
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mdevens
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| Not sure if this helps, but I used ndisrapper for my wireless card. Information can be found at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Plus, ndiswrapper is on portage.. |
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I just looked on the ndiswrapper website, and the wiki (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page) said your card is supported:
| Code: | Card: [Intel] PRO/Wireless 2200BG
* pciid: 8086:4220
* Driver: version 8.0.0 ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/7440/eng/intel%20wireless%20proset%20%20-%208.0.0.167%20generic%20.exe
* Driver (latest): version 8.1.1.0 ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/7819/eng/wireless%208.1.1.0%20-%20generic%20tic%2088663.exe Other: Tested on Debian with kernel 2.6.8, ndiswrapper 0.11, w22n51.inf from version 8.1.1.0. w22n50.inf from version 8.0.0 does not appear to work.
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senzacionale
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yes it said that wireless card is supported! What did you do mdevens that wireless start working.
Where did you enter wep 64 encription?
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Well, the first thing is you need to make sure you have the correct kernel modules loaded, for instance, my wireless card is a PCMCIA so, I had to make sure my PCMCIA stuff was loaded. Also, there are some wireless stuff you need to add in your kernel: (I'm using the 2.6.13 kernel, but, these should be there since like 2.6.7 or so, not really sure when they were added)
I'm not sure if you really need it, but I added practically everything under:
Device Drivers->Networking Device Support->Wireless LAN
Device Drivers->Networking Device Support->PCMCIA Device Support (because mine is a PCMCIA)
Device Drivers->Networking Device Support->WAN
It took me a couple of times to compile it then add more stuff and get it working because I have a generic wireless card that had little documentation and I really wasn't sure which chipset my card was.
Once you get that stuff in your kernel, you'll have to emerge ndiswrapper
then, you have to emerge the wireless tools
| Code: | | emerge wireless-tools |
Once you get that stuff done. You're now ready to setup ndiswrapper. You'll have to download the Windows drivers for your card and get the inf and any other sys files you'll need...Basically what ndiswrapper does is it takes the windows drivers and 'wraps' them for linux. Once you have those, you add them to ndiswrapper:
| Code: | | ndiswrapper -i [the inf file] |
only a few more steps...
| Code: | ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper
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For me, i have a pcmcia card, so i start the pcmcia service here...
now you're all set...the wireless tools package has a bunch of utils like iwconfig, iwlist, etc... basically, i use iwlist to look for wireless connections, then i use iwconfig to set the key, access point name, etc...
Anyway, I hope that helps...
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senzacionale
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Thnx mdevens this helps me much.
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You'll have to download the Windows drivers for your card and get the inf and any other sys files you'll need...
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Hmm i don't know where i can get windows drivers for Intel corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG /rev 05) . I get a pack for it in gericom ego CD but is exe file so i don't know ho wi can use it in linux?
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senzacionale, what exactly is the problem you are having with the ipw2200 driver? You should really prefer this driver to ndiswrapper. And install and use the wireless extensions (iwconfig, ...), of course.
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i dont know where to get windows drivers for that card? I have exe file and i don't know if this is ok. How will ndiswrapper wraps exe file to linux?
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Not quite the right answer, I'm afraid  My question was about your problems with the ipw2200 driver, which should support your hardware without the need of installing any windows binary files perfectly.
ipw2200 is a Linux native driver, whereas ndiswrapper ... is a wrapper for windoze firmware.
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hmm now i am relly confused. Now i don't know what to install that wireless will work? I don't use pcmcia wireless card but wireless which is already in the computer so then i don't need ndiswrapper or am i wrong?
What then i need?
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