wlan0 doesn't "see" wireless card- with apologies

Hi,
Sorry to keep posting- but following old King Bruce's principle...

So if iwconfig doesn't sense the presence of my USB adapter (MA111)
what could be wrong?
Specifics
Knoppix 3.9 (from Live CD)
MA111 USB adapter (led is on)

Downloaded the XP drivers, did the ndiswrapper thing.
I used the ndiswrapper that came with the Knoppix.

iwconfig
gives
"no wireless extensions"

ifconfig wlan0 up
gives
Error while getting interface flags: no such device

Thanks

"Linux Dilettante" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>Hi,
>Sorry to keep posting- but following old King Bruce's principle...

>So if iwconfig doesn't sense the presence of my USB adapter (MA111)
>what could be wrong?

It means that the driver never loaded.
Do
modprobe ndiswrapper, and look in /var/log/messages for possible error
messages which may give you a clue.


>Specifics
>Knoppix 3.9 (from Live CD)
>MA111 USB adapter (led is on)

Not sure what that means.



>Downloaded the XP drivers, did the ndiswrapper thing.
>I used the ndiswrapper that came with the Knoppix.

>iwconfig
>gives
>"no wireless extensions"

That says that iwconfig cannot find any ethernet port which supports
wireless. See above.


>ifconfig wlan0 up
>gives
>Error while getting interface flags: no such device

This says that wlan0 does not exist. Again consistant with no driver
loaded.

So first you have to make sure your driver loads without error and finds
your wireless card. Then worry about iwconfig etc.

Thanks!
While waiting for this reply I downloaded a different flavor of Knoppix
(PC-Welt Knoppix professional 3.7). That comes with built in Prism
drivers. Using those I was able to get my USB Adapter to work.

>Specifics
>Knoppix 3.9 (from Live CD)
>MA111 USB adapter (led is on)
I was saying that in my situation I was running Knoppix 3.9 booting
from a live CD.
The USB adapter I am using is a Netgeare MA111 and its LED light is
on.

But to satisfy my curiosity I will reboot using the "old" version and
take a look at the log file.

HI,
I did as you suggested and checked /var/log. The messages file is
empty.

Here are the details of the ndiswrapper release. I used the
ndiswrapper that came on the cd
ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.11 1.1rc3-1
ndiswrapper-utils 1.1rc3-1

Hopefully you can point me where I am going wrong?

Since I am running from live CD it is slightly inconvenient to download
and build a new ndiswrapper but I could give it a shot.
THanks

I checked my adapater. Turns out it was MA111v2 and the driver I had
downloaded from the "List" on the wiki site was for v1
So I downloaded the v2 drivers from netgear.com

I rebooted from CD and repeated the process.

ndiswrapper -i /mnt/hda5/MA111v2/MA111v2.inf

ndiswrapper -l
This time it showed that the hardware was present.

modprobe ndiswrapper
I checked in the system log after entering this command by entering the
command dmesg

I found the following entries at the end
========================================
ndiswrapper version 1.1.rc3 loaded
ndiswrapper: driver MA111v2 (Netgear 05/28/2004 5.1.1039.1030 loaded)

ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_add_one_usb_dev:311) Windows driver could not
initialize the device (C000009A)

ndiswrapper: probe of 1-2:1.0 failed with error -22
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
========================================
BUT

"ifconfig', "ifconfig wlan0' up and "iwconfig" all have same failure
results as earlier