gregswinford
June 30th, 2006, 07:56 PM
Here's my brief howto to get your Safecom SWLP-54108 wireless card working (this may work for other ACX111 chipset wireless cards also) using ndiswrapper and the Windows drivers.
1. First, blacklist the acx module by adding 'blacklist acx' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
2. Configure the interface in /etc/network/interfaces - something like this:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid MyWirelessNetwork
wireless-key s:MyKeyCode
At this point it might be advisable to reboot.
3. Then install ndiswrapper and install the Windows drivers (see the Ubuntu Wiki page on ndiswrapper for this).
4. Run 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper' to install the ndiswrapper module.
5. Test the network using iwconfig and ping.
6. If this works, add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules to allow the module to load during boot.
This may not be the best/only way to do this, but I found that doing the steps in the slightly odd order above worked for me where other methods had failed.
Good luck!
Greg :)
1. First, blacklist the acx module by adding 'blacklist acx' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
2. Configure the interface in /etc/network/interfaces - something like this:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid MyWirelessNetwork
wireless-key s:MyKeyCode
At this point it might be advisable to reboot.
3. Then install ndiswrapper and install the Windows drivers (see the Ubuntu Wiki page on ndiswrapper for this).
4. Run 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper' to install the ndiswrapper module.
5. Test the network using iwconfig and ping.
6. If this works, add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules to allow the module to load during boot.
This may not be the best/only way to do this, but I found that doing the steps in the slightly odd order above worked for me where other methods had failed.
Good luck!
Greg :)