On 11/18/05, Martin Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > I have installed Debian 3.0 on my Dell Inspiron 1200. Everything is > > working fine except I could not the wireless card. I have installed > > orinoco_cs and done: > > apt-get --purge remove pcmcia-cs > > apt-get install pcmcia-cs > > > > hmm, you have the orinoco kernel driver loaded? And the pcmcia kernel > stuff as well? > > > but whenever I insert the WLAN card(Dell 1350 WLAN 802.11b/g), its > > giving the error: > > hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting > > > > that is completely unrelated as far as i am informed. hw_random is the > hardware random number generator which some systems have. The most > systems however don't have it but hotplug tries to load it. Why it > tries to load hw_random on inserting a wireless card into your notebook > is however a bit of a riddle to me. > > Hope that helped > > Greets > > Martin > -- > Martin Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPG-Encrypted mail preferred, KEY: 0D459A72 > >
Thanks for the help. I installed ndiswrapper to run the XP driver provided by Dell. Then, after doing : modprobe ndiswrapper it detected the wireless card and now I can use the internet with it. However, the problem with hw_random still exists. Especially, it is giving modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-4-686/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.ko) No such device while booting. So I added the line hw_random to /etc/hotplug/blacklist I tried to install the driver hw_random using modconf, but it gave the error Cannot enable RNG. -- Anandam Banerjee Dept of Mathematics 567 Lake Hall, Northeastern University Boston MA 02115 Phone: (1) 617.373.5232 Fax: (1) 617.373.5658
