Asus WL-100g under Debian

Hi,

I'm trying to get my Asus WL-100g WLAN card to work under Debian Sarge with
kernel 2.6.8-1-686, on my Toshiba Satellite 1400-103 notebook (Celeron 1.33
GHz).
I downloaded the ndiswrapper 0.11-rc1 source using apt-get (deb
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/debian ./) and compiled it; this all
worked fine.
Using the Win2K drivers, I did:

thunderbolt:~# ndiswrapper -i /usr/src/win32_wlan_drv/bcmwl5.inf
Installing bcmwl5

thunderbolt:~# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

The above seems OK to me.
However:

thunderbolt:~# modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper version 0.11_rc1 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)

According to http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/w...p/Installation
, I should see a line like "wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" as well. I don't see that line and it doesn't appear in
syslog either. The result is that iwconfig doesn't see any wireless devices:

thunderbolt:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.


/etc/ndiswrapper does contain a bcmwl5 dir, which seems to contain all the
necessary files:

thunderbolt:~# ls -la /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/
total 524
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 2 16:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Oct 2 16:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4301.conf ->
/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301:1043:0120.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 463 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4301:1043:0103.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 463 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4301:1043:0120.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320.conf ->
/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:14E4:100F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:1043:100F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:1043:103F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:1043:120F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:14E4:100F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:14E4:103F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:14E4:120F.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257692 Oct 2 16:02 bcmwl5.inf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265728 Oct 2 16:02 bcmwl5.sys


I'm stuck here. I followed the installation instructions and all seemed to
go well, but the driver simply isn't loaded. The card itself is OK, it works
flawlessly under WinXP on the same notebook.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Bart

have you got it to work ?
I'm planning to buy this card...
but I can't find anybody to got it to work.

this seems to be a good card.

thanks

Mathieu


Bart Kneepkens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get my Asus WL-100g WLAN card to work under Debian
Sarge with
> kernel 2.6.8-1-686, on my Toshiba Satellite 1400-103 notebook
(Celeron 1.33
> GHz).
> I downloaded the ndiswrapper 0.11-rc1 source using apt-get (deb
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/debian ./) and compiled it; this
all
> worked fine.
> Using the Win2K drivers, I did:
>
> thunderbolt:~# ndiswrapper -i /usr/src/win32_wlan_drv/bcmwl5.inf
> Installing bcmwl5
>
> thunderbolt:~# ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
>
> The above seems OK to me.
> However:
>
> thunderbolt:~# modprobe ndiswrapper
> ndiswrapper version 0.11_rc1 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
>
> According to
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/w...p/Installation
> , I should see a line like "wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device
> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" as well. I don't see that line and it doesn't
appear in
> syslog either. The result is that iwconfig doesn't see any wireless
devices:
>
> thunderbolt:~# iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> sit0 no wireless extensions.
>
>
> /etc/ndiswrapper does contain a bcmwl5 dir, which seems to contain
all the
> necessary files:
>
> thunderbolt:~# ls -la /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/
> total 524
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 2 16:02 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Oct 2 16:02 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4301.conf ->
> /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4301:1043:0120.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 463 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4301:1043:0103.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 463 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4301:1043:0120.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320.conf ->
> /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4320:14E4:100F.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:1043:100F.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:1043:103F.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:1043:120F.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:14E4:100F.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:14E4:103F.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Oct 2 16:02 14E4:4320:14E4:120F.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257692 Oct 2 16:02 bcmwl5.inf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265728 Oct 2 16:02 bcmwl5.sys
>
>
> I'm stuck here. I followed the installation instructions and all
seemed to
> go well, but the driver simply isn't loaded. The card itself is OK,
it works
> flawlessly under WinXP on the same notebook.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bart