configure wireless card

[masternige]

Hello i am trying to setup my laptop to be wireless,
I have got a "Dell Latitude c600" i am dual booting suse 9.1 pro and winxp the wireless card i have got is a "motorola notebook adapter wn825g" I know the card works as i am online with xp.
I used yast to download ndiswrapper,
Now i downloaded the window drivers for my motorola card which come in the form of .exe this is where im stuck as i dont really understand why iv downloaded them.any way i put the downloaded windows drivers in "my Documents"
I then opend a terminal and did. "ndiswrapper -i Motorola_WN825_WPC1810_6.0.3.EXE"
I then did "ndiswrapper -l" to see if it had installed the output was
"Motorola_WN825_WPC1810_6.0.3.EXE invalid driver.
If some one can throw some light my way it would be appreciated thanks

[kage]

ndiswrapper -i Motorola_WN825_WPC1810_6.0.3.EXE is wrong. You have to use the *.inf file, not the executable (.exe). If you don't have a .inf file, you won't be able to get the card working with ndiswrapper.

I checked ndiswrapper's site, and found:

Card: [Motorola] WN825G (V3) FCC ID: ACQWN825GV3

• pciid: 14E4:4320, lspci -vb string is "Broadcom Corporation: Unknown Device 4320 (rev 3)" Windoze#*Driver: ./Motorola Utility Installer/Win/bcmwl5.{inf,sys}
• Other: This card works with ndiswrapper 1.1 using supplied drivers on CDROM, though I'm sure drivers can be downloaded from Motorola(r) at http://www.motorola.com/broadband/networking

So, the driver on the cd should have the .inf file you need

[masternige]

Hello i went to the motorola site as i dont have a cd and downloaded the driver this is what was inside it,
master@linux:~/Documents/SP23107A> ls
bcm43xxa.cat bcmwl5.sys bcmwlntp.sys data2.cab Setup.ini
bcm43xx.cat bcmwld2k.exe bcmwlu00.exe ikernel.ex_ setup.inx
bcmwl5a.inf bcmwlhom.exe data1.cab layout.bin setup.iss
bcmwl5.inf bcmwlhom.ini data1.hdr Setup.exe sp23107
so i installed these 2 bcmwl5a.inf ,bcmwl5.inf
so now when i do ndiswrapper -l get this ouput
linux:/home/master/Documents/SP23107A # ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present
linux:/home/master/Documents/SP23107A #
which i think is good but it stil dont work may be i should of installed one
thanks nige

[masternige]

It would seem when i do "modprobe ndiswrapper "nothing happens so i had a look to see what "lsmod" said and ndiswrapper was not there im sure it should show as a module so i rebooted and sure enough when it gets to ndiswrapper it says fatal error ndiswrapper not found so it would seem my problem is ndiswrapper so for know im going to just do some reading on the site kage gave me and ill see what happens

[masternige]

i read that the driver i downloaded would only work with ndiswrapper 1.1-4.4 and i was using version 0.6-23 so i have upgraded to version 1.1-4.4
so know i do "modprobe ndiswrapper" and i get a new error
"FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.5-7.201-default/extra/ndiswrapper.ko):Operation not permitted."
Can anybody tell me what this means please
Thanks nige

[masternige]

ok im realy close here goes for what i think might be my last problem iv just downloaded
version 1.0 of ndiswrapper and when i type "make" to compile i get this error message.
master@laptop:~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.0$ make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/master/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.0/driver'
Can't find kernel sources in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/build;
give the path to kernel sources with KSRC=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/master/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.0/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2
master@laptop:~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.0$
can some body tell me how to overcome this please.

[masternige]

just thought i would add all i had to do was install "kernel headers" to get rid of the las error message

[masternige]

this is a quick guide to how i did it finally.im running debian 3.1 on a dell c600 laptop using a "motorola wn825g"notebook adapter i am using kernel version 2.6.8-2-386
i downloaded ndiswrapper from here version 1.5 from here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/
and followed instructions from here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers/500
thats all thanks nige