Ndiswrapper problem. Hardware not detected?

[lcruz007]

Hello all!
I have been lately trying to install Ndiswrapper for Ubuntu. I have successfully installed Ndiswrapper and my Wireless driver, however, when I try to see if my driver was successfully installed with the command: Ndiswrapper -l, I get netw4v32 : driver installed, but doesn't it have to show if it detects the hardware?

If I try checking if my network is working correctly with ifconfig, it doesn't shows up the alias I created for the driver, "wlan0".

You can see the following screenshot:



Someone knows what's the problem?


Thanks in advance.

[ajmorris]

hi there,
yes, if it detects the hardware, it will show a device id, and say it is present, i.e.:

device (some device id) present

To see if your wireless card is detected, what is the output of

sudo lspci

AJ

[lcruz007]

hi there,
yes, if it detects the hardware, it will show a device id, and say it is present, i.e.:


To see if your wireless card is detected, what is the output of

sudo lspci

AJ

I get this output:

luis@luis-laptop:~$ sudo lspci
[sudo] password for luis:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
0c:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0c:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0c:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0c:04.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
luis@luis-laptop:~$

[cariboo]

Could you post the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

That should show us if your wireless card is working.

Jim

[lcruz007]

Could you post the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

That should show us if your wireless card is working.

Jim

Output:

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:1e:ec:3e:dd:21
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK duplex=full ip=192.168.2.112 latency=0 link=yes module=r8169 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix cap_list
configuration: latency=0

[lcruz007]

Does someone knows what's going on?

[ajmorris]

are you sure that is the correct wireless driver for the Atheros AR242x card? (AKA AR5007EG)

Also, if the restricted drivers that are provided in hardy are not functioning, make sure you disable them from System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers.

googling dug up these drivers for that card:
http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/...-32-0.2.tar.gz

Also, have you tried madwifi?

AJ

[lcruz007]

are you sure that is the correct wireless driver for the Atheros AR242x card? (AKA AR5007EG)

Also, if the restricted drivers that are provided in hardy are not functioning, make sure you disable them from System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers.

googling dug up these drivers for that card:
http://blakecmartin.googlepages.com/...-32-0.2.tar.gz

Also, have you tried madwifi?

AJ

Ok, thank you! finally I get this as an output:

net5211 : driver installed
device (168C:001C) present


When I tried to make an alias, I accidentally deleted mdprobe in /usr/sbin... Do you know how can I restore it?


Thank you

[ajmorris]

When I tried to make an alias, I accidentally deleted mdprobe in /usr/sbin... Do you know how can I restore it?

?? modprobe is in /sbin not /usr/sbin, and also it is part of the base ubuntu system, so cannot be re-installed without a re-install of ubuntu, however, as it is only a binary file, if you get someone else that is running the same base ubuntu system as you, i.e Hardy 32bit, you can just use their /sbin/modprobe file

I however, do not have hardy, or a 32bit system.... you could just copy the file of the live cd or other install media that you used to install ubuntu.

AJ

[lcruz007]

Ok, I re-installed Ubuntu and reinstalled ndiswrapper with the correct driver. I don't know why it doesn't works though, wlan0 doesn't shows up.
Outcome:



What's the problem?


Thanks