Wireless card not detected
From MEPIS Documentation Wiki
If your hardware is not detected you could try to:
- Make sure there is no conflict between interfaces or drivers. This can happen if e.g. you have more than one wireless card in your machine, or if two drivers get loaded for the same card. If there is, make sure only one wireless interface is checked for Start at boot in Network Manager/Assistant, and that only one driver is shown with "hardware present driver present" in ndiswrapper.
- Load the appropriate native driver using
modprobe drivername
You can find the available drivers in /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-desktop/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/. This kernel version applies to MEPIS 6.5. For MEPIS 7 you would have to look in /lib/modules/2.6.22-1-mepis-smp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/.
- Get ndiswrapper to use the Windows driver for the device in Linux. A number of drivers are supplied out of the box, which you can see by typing
ndiswrapper -l
- Delete all drivers as described in the section on ndiswrapper and reinstall the latest Windows driver. You will need both *.inf and *.sys files in the same directory before you install the driver with ndiswrapper.
- Check if your card has particular problems. Start by identifying the chipset of your network card, then check the list of particular cards. A large list of cards and chipsets can be found at this Linux wireless LAN support site.
