ndiswrapper not found?

What appears if you do
# iwconfig

Also try
# ifconfig wlan0 up

You might consider removing all the drivers that are relevant to your card and only keep the one that works under windows.

# ndiswrapper -e irrelevantdriver

according to the list

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#M (no. 14)

and ndiswrapper says that it recognizes the card is present and has a driver that works with it. I'm no specialist on this stuff, but it looks to me like you are ready to go through the basic steps to get connected:

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Adjust_the_wireless_connection

If you still have troubles, I have found a suggestion (http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=339322, in French) for Dapper that you might need to blacklist a competing driver. If you want to try that when the other steps don't work, follow the directions for blacklisting a driver here:

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Any_card_using_the_Broadcom_43xx_chipset

but substituting mrv8k51 for bcm43xx.

Hope this helps.

I don't know whether you resolved your problem, but I'm using a 3COM PCMCIA (Prism54 based wireless card), worked fine under 6.0.4 with Ndiswrapper (had to blacklist Prism54 though). Upgraded to 6.5 RC3 and now can't get card to work. Ndiswrapper is installed (including graphical frontend) but when I click on the link to the front end it doesn't launch. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Did you go through the steps in the Wiki on this?

http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Adjust_the_wireless_connection

They have been revised for the current release and would be the place to start if you have not looked at them already.

you can access the repository using another computer/OS, and download and install a WORKING copy of ndiswrapper that INCLUDES the ndiswrapper module.

As long as you cannot do the step:
modprobe ndiswrapper
you have no hope of making a wireless network connection.

All the other suggestions (using iwconfig, iwlist, etc...) are useless IF you cannot turn on the wireless chip/card, and "modprobe ndiswrapper" is the only way you can do that.

I've been warning about this problem every since it appeared when I upgraded RC1 to RC2. I ended up redoing an RC1 install and keeping my home account, Then I upgraded everything BUT the ndiswrapper/bcm43xx stuff. I've also found out that you can do a fresh RC3 install and it will allow the ndiswrapper solution.

Hopefully, they'll include a COMPLETE ndiswrapper package in the GOLD release that includes the ndiswrapper module and allows setting up a wireless chip regardless of what the auto detection/configuration programs do.
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GreyGeek

I finally had to give up on this. After 6.5 was released I reinstalled Mepis from scratch. Ndiswrapper, etc all worked as I think it should have based on all the tips here and in various other notes I read. However, I could never get the card to work, so I put it in a windows pc to see if it would work with all the supplied, "supported" software. No luck there either - the win driver couldn't even find the card! At this point I gave up and tossed it out (only cost about $15 to begin with.)

<< probably should start a new thread here >>

I now have a Linksys wusb54g (usb, external, V4-ralink 2500) wireless interface. After a lot of screwing around with ndiswrapper and the linksys drivers, it occasionally works, and when it does it is very fast. However, I find I cannot boot Mepis if the USB cable is plugged in (hangs right after the "select your OS" (grub?) screen. If I plug it in after Mepis starts, it (usually) works for 3-30 minutes. The more graphics/pictures the shorter the working time. When it quits it either loses connection to the access point (w/o any indication) or it hangs the computer. Sometimes I can recover just by unplugging it, sometimes it takes a hard restart. Me thinks IRQ conflict with video? How is that possible with a USB card?