Why isn't wlan0 listed by iwconfig?

You've apparently created a wrapper for your Windows driver of wusb54gs, but you haven't loaded it or informed modultils.

As root, you next steps should be
modeprobe yourdrivernames (as listed by ndiswrapper)
If your wireless light comes on then you've created the wlan0 device (IF that is the device your wireless chip creates. It could be ath0 or sth0 ... )

As root,
iwlist scanning
will show you what is what.

Then, if iwlist shows you a wireless device, you can use Mepis OS Center (now called Mepis Utilities) to configure your wireless. When you get a connection you can open a root console and issue
ndiswrapper -m
to load modutils so that your wireless will load automatically at the next boot.

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GreyGeek

thanks for replying.
You've answered my question saying that wlan0 is to be created by my wireless device so I won't try anymore to find it somewhere in this machine.

I've already done the modprobe and ndiswrapper -m
There was a message indicating alias wlan0.

Maybe better to give up on this and stick to winxp side for this application.

What is version of your wireless WUSB54GS?

You need to find the chipset -- Broadcom or Ralink

What is output of lspci -vv

Mike

It's broadcom
Tried as root:
sh-3.1# ispci -w
sh: ispci: command not found

The command is lower case(LSPCI), not lower case(ISPCI)
It's also two v's not one w

They look so similar in common screen fonts that that catches a lot of people

Thanks -shows controller stuff.
Not sure what to look for - this is only part of long list referring to wireless I can see:

0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine II] Embeded Ethernet Controller on VT8235
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- Latency: 32 (750ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 185
Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [=256]
Region 1: Memory at f6011000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

bilzer,

Look for a line like:

Network controller: Broadcom Corpo...

Mine is a Broadcom 4318 and requires special ndiswrapper configuration. Ubuntu and Mepis install an open source driver that unfortunately dosen't directly work for this hardware.

lspci -vv doesn't show any line like that.
I re-did the ndiswrapper using WUSB54GSv2.inf
moved rndismpk.sys and usb8023k.sys to /etc/ndiswrapper/wusb54gsv2
and again the ndiswrapper -l shows driver and device present,
did ndiswrapper -m
did the modprobe
and lspci -vv doesnt show any line like that,
AND when I do ndiswrapper -l the console freezes.
Makes no difference to logoff-logon.

Greetings,
I'm with you. Glad I have a XP machine to browse these forums. I don't know what these linux people are doing for internet. Can't be WIFI!
tlcstat