[Ndiswrapper-general] 2200BG not detected?

[Oliver Pell]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the Intel 2200BG mini-PCI adapter (in a Sony VAIO S1XP
laptop) working with ndiswrapper. Everything seems to work up to the point
of "modprobe ndiswrapper" where dmesg simply reports "ndiswrapper version
0.8 loaded" and doesn't indicate anything about having detected the adapter.
"ndiswrapper -l" indicates that "w22n51" driver is present. "lspci" reports
the existance of the network controller quite happily. I'm using Gentoo
Linux with kernel 2.6.7.

Am I missing a step here or something? Any help would be appreciated!

Regards,

Oliver.

[n***@skoid.org]

Hi

Post by Oliver Pell
I'm trying to get the Intel 2200BG mini-PCI adapter (in a Sony VAIO S1XP
laptop) working with ndiswrapper. Everything seems to work up to the point
of "modprobe ndiswrapper" where dmesg simply reports "ndiswrapper version
0.8 loaded" and doesn't indicate anything about having detected the adapter.
"ndiswrapper -l" indicates that "w22n51" driver is present. "lspci" reports
the existance of the network controller quite happily. I'm using Gentoo
Linux with kernel 2.6.7.
Am I missing a step here or something? Any help would be appreciated!

what do you have if you type "iwconfig wlan0" ?

[Oliver Pell]

Post by n***@skoid.org

Post by Oliver Pell
I'm trying to get the Intel 2200BG mini-PCI adapter (in a Sony VAIO S1XP
laptop) working with ndiswrapper. Everything seems to work up to the point
of "modprobe ndiswrapper" where dmesg simply reports "ndiswrapper version
0.8 loaded" and doesn't indicate anything about having detected the adapter.
"ndiswrapper -l" indicates that "w22n51" driver is present. "lspci" reports
the existance of the network controller quite happily. I'm using Gentoo
Linux with kernel 2.6.7.
Am I missing a step here or something? Any help would be appreciated!

what do you have if you type "iwconfig wlan0" ?

It complains that none of the network adapters present are wireless.
"ifconfig -a" doesn't list a new connection either - it just lists eth0 (the
wired connection).

[Deven Gallo]

It's me again, trying to get my card going! I have a
Compaq Presario notebook (X1300 from the X1000 series)
with an Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 BG card. I am running
Debian Testing (SARGE distribution) with Kernel 2.6.6,
custom compiled.

I downloaded ndiswrapper 0.8 (also tried CVS) and
extracted it, and followed the directions to the
letter. I first built my 2.6.6 kernel and set
/lib/modules/2.6.6/build to point to the sources I
used to do so, made sure Wireless Support was on in
the kernel when I built it. Once in 2.6.6, I compiled
the ndiswrapper module. I made it with DEBUG=1. Once
done (no errors), I did make install.

Then, I navigated to the dir with the recommended
driver from the project page, and did ndiswrapper -i
on it.. then ndiswrapper -l, which confirmed it was
'Present'. All looked OK, so I went and did 'modprobe
ndiswrapper hangcheck_interval=-1' [as I have had
hangcheck errors before on this module] .. I got no
output on the console, just the prompt again.

dmesg reports:
ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded
ndiswrapper adding w22n51.sys

iwconfig reports:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Monitor

So I try to set my ESSID for a test.

skynet:~/ndiswrap_driv# iwconfig eth1 essid "Wireless"
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not
supported.

.. OK, so I'll change gears. I've had it working
better than this, so I decide to try a different
driver. I go pick up the latest driver from Compaq's
site for the 2200 BG, the XP driver .. same result.

So I remove /etc/ndiswrapper and the module from
lib/modules/2.6.6/misc/ and then install the CVS
sources for ndiswrapper, compile with debug, modprobe
and check dmesg. Same result.

Last night, doing the exact same thing, I instead was
able to get it to detect, it would notify me it found
the device on IRQ 5 and Device 02:02.0. wlan0 would be
created. I could set an ESSID. But setting anything
ELSE would result in an 'Invalid Argument' error from
iwconfig, so I could not pick a MAC address for the
AP, or a WEP key. iwlist wlan0 scan would return
nothing when I was 10 feet from an AP.

All of this works GREAT in Windows, so I know it is
not a hardware issue.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.







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Post by Deven Gallo
It's me again, trying to get my card going! I have a
Compaq Presario notebook (X1300 from the X1000 series)
with an Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 BG card. I am running
Debian Testing (SARGE distribution) with Kernel 2.6.6,
custom compiled.
I downloaded ndiswrapper 0.8 (also tried CVS) and
extracted it, and followed the directions to the
letter. I first built my 2.6.6 kernel and set
/lib/modules/2.6.6/build to point to the sources I
used to do so, made sure Wireless Support was on in
the kernel when I built it. Once in 2.6.6, I compiled
the ndiswrapper module. I made it with DEBUG=1. Once
done (no errors), I did make install.
Then, I navigated to the dir with the recommended
driver from the project page, and did ndiswrapper -i
on it.. then ndiswrapper -l, which confirmed it was
'Present'. All looked OK, so I went and did 'modprobe
ndiswrapper hangcheck_interval=-1' [as I have had
hangcheck errors before on this module] .. I got no
output on the console, just the prompt again.
ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded
ndiswrapper adding w22n51.sys
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Monitor
So I try to set my ESSID for a test.
skynet:~/ndiswrap_driv# iwconfig eth1 essid "Wireless"
SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not
supported.
.. OK, so I'll change gears. I've had it working
better than this, so I decide to try a different
driver. I go pick up the latest driver from Compaq's
site for the 2200 BG, the XP driver .. same result.
So I remove /etc/ndiswrapper and the module from
lib/modules/2.6.6/misc/ and then install the CVS
sources for ndiswrapper, compile with debug, modprobe
and check dmesg. Same result.
Last night, doing the exact same thing, I instead was
able to get it to detect, it would notify me it found
the device on IRQ 5 and Device 02:02.0. wlan0 would be
created. I could set an ESSID. But setting anything
ELSE would result in an 'Invalid Argument' error from
iwconfig, so I could not pick a MAC address for the
AP, or a WEP key. iwlist wlan0 scan would return
nothing when I was 10 feet from an AP.
All of this works GREAT in Windows, so I know it is
not a hardware issue.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Does it not say on the web site that ipw2200 driver
is not able to perform any sort networking!
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[Deven Gallo]

No. I don't see that anywhere. What are you talking
about?

Post by Peter A. Pilgrim
Does it not say on the web site that ipw2200 driver
is not able to perform any sort networking!
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