Cosmin Nicolaescu on 1 Sep 2005 12:47:48 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] slackware ndiswrapper / wlan0


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On Thu, September 1, 2005 7:31 am, Jeff Watson wrote:
> I have been fighting my slackware box recently, trying to get it to
> recognize my wireless card. It's an intel pro2200 B/G card, and
> ndiswrapper
> compiles fine. I can install the drivers, but I need to create a device
> wlan0... on other distros I have used it always created the device, or it
> was already there... ifconfig gives me my standard lo and eth0, and
> iwconfig
> detects "no wireless interfaces". The post about slackware uptime jogged
> my
> memory, and I know it would be helpful for me to post any ndiswrapper
> stuff
> from dmesg, etc but I am at work. IF anyone has any pointers that would be
> great, otherwise I'll have to post with more technical information this
> evening.

For the intel 2200, why not just use iwp2200 ?
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net

In the past I've had horrible results with ndis-wrapper, so whenever there
is an aletrnative I go with that.

- -Cos

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