Maya LinkSys WPC54G v2 set up/Install Failures

[jphull]

I have search around and found bits and pieces of prroblems I am having, but not of them seem to fit as a cohesive answer so I am posting with the hope there is a way to make this work before I give up and go back to XP.

I have a Dell D600, I installed Maya (Mint 13) DVD successfully.
I also have a WPC54G v2 Wireless PCMCIA card that had worked before in this Laptop running XP.

To date, I have research and tried updating the firmware per one "solution". When I run inxi -N this is what I get

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Network:   Card-1: Texas Instruments Device 1066
           Card-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet driver: tg3


Does this mean the system "sees" the card?

When I run mintwifi I get this back:

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me@Bilbo ~ $ mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Texas Instruments Device 1066
      ==> PCI ID = 104c:1066
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
lsbcmnds : driver installed
lstinds : driver installed
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0f:1f:d1:a4:df 
          inet addr:172.16.65.136  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fed1:a4df/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:35348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14037 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:38898601 (38.8 MB)  TX bytes:1270291 (1.2 MB)
          Interrupt:11

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:30168 (30.1 KB)  TX bytes:30168 (30.1 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:      172.16.60.14
Address:   172.16.60.14#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   google.com
Address: 74.125.139.100
Name:   google.com
Address: 74.125.139.101
Name:   google.com
Address: 74.125.139.102
Name:   google.com
Address: 74.125.139.113
Name:   google.com
Address: 74.125.139.138
Name:   google.com
Address: 74.125.139.139




I found instructions on setting up the windows wireless drivers (control menu> Windows Wireless Drivers>Add) which presents the add screen. I had already downloaded the Linksys drivers for WPC54G v2 into public so I go to install either INF file and I get this error

FATAL: Module NDISWrapper not found. Is the ndiswrapper module installed?

Well I look in package manager and it indicates it is installed.

So, what does it take to get a Linksys WPC54G v2 PCMCIA card installed and working on a D600 running Maya. I will be open to provide what ever is needed to make it happen.

[AlbertP]

Please try installing the ndiswrapper-dkms package.

[dghalls]

I installed Linux Mint Maya on my old IBM Thinkpad T41 which was kind of buggy with Windows. With Linux Mint, it runs fine. The PCMCIA wireless card is the Linksys WPC54G v2.

I used the linksys driver CD that came with the card and installed them using the Linux Mint applet for Windows Wireless drivers. It worked ok but could only do WEP for authentication. I then searched and found that using the Zyxel drivers both allow this card to work and to also support WPA security.

The Zyxel ftp site does not have the driver that supports this. The driver is found at https://sites.google.com/site/eneerge/w ... driver.zip which gives you just the drivers you need which is the driver Ver=12/01/2004,7.0.1.33. This is verified by opening the TNET1130.INF file. You can get the whole install disk at http://dl1.web.zyxel.ru/001/G-162/drive ... andard.zip.