Robert, Carl, Jerry,M, et all. Fired CentOS 2 as the kernel was older than either the driver for the Linksys WPC11v.4 wireless network adapter or the ndiswrapper wanted. Got lots of error messages. Installed CentOS 4 successfully, and continued to get error messages. Feeling more configuration files were needed, went to my wired adapter and # 'yum update'. After 45 minutes of updates, also # 'yum install ndiwwrapper' to get the latest. Still got errors and didn't really understand why the errors on "files not found" were coming. Tried a live Simply Mepis 3.4, (2.6.9-22.0.2.EL kernel) and it seemed to be friendly to the WPC11v.4, and recognized a device on wlan0. And, # lsmod had an ndiswrapper file. Mepis configured the mouse, sound card, flash drive, and had no obvious issues with the display, so I fired CentOS 4 and installed Mepis 3.4 on the hard drive. Everything seems to work, except I didn't have any wireless router with which to try it. I set it up for wired and connected on eth0. It appears the wireless is on wlan0. Am looking forward to the next opportunity for wireless. Will not be able to get to the 3/11 meeting. Thanks for all of your help. Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Central West End Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [cwe-lug] wireless pcmcia
> > On Feb 9, 2006, at 2:13 PM, anthony lordi wrote: > >> I've had trouble and still have with the Linksys WPC11v.4 wireless. > > IIRC, you are trying to use this card under a 2.4 Linux kernel. > Unfortunately, the Open Source driver was designed for the 2.6 > kernel, although the author says it may work with 2.4. As for > ndiswrapper, it looks as though you need 2.6 or a later 2.4 kernel, > according to the ndsiwrapper install page: > > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation > > "You need a recent kernel at least 2.6.6 or 2.4.26 with source" > > From what you've written before you currently have 2.4.9 on CentOS. > You probably want to upgrade your kernel, if possible, and then use > ndiswrapper. > > One thing we should have done and didn't because we ran out of time > was to run Knoppix on your machine and try the card with > ndiswrapper. It worked on my machine so it should have worked on > yours. Doing that would demonstrate whether or not the card will > work on your machine. > > Tony, what are you doing this weekend? Wanna meet up at a Bread Co > for an hour or so to see if we can hash this out? I'm game on both > Saturday and Sunday afternoon. > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
