Re: Orinoco Driver on old Toshiba Portege not working in Min
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:11 pm
Well, that would qualify as a bust ...
I installed and configured the Windows drivers using ndiswrapper and when I went in to look at the results via
Menu->Administration->Windows Network Drivers
The driver was shown (as the only one) in the list and it had underneath it "Hardware Present: No"
So when I went to the Networking icon in the taskbar to see what the wireless network card saw, it was blank and the wireless entries were not even there.
I backtracked, removing the Windows wireless driver and went back to the Orinoco driver and I am now back to where I was - I can see but not connect to a wireless network.
Here's what I did:
Blacklisted the existing native (partially working) orinoco_cs wireless driver by editing /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and added, as the last line
confirmed the windows driver was installed by running
wrote the configuration for modprobe by running
added ndiswrapper to the startup list by adding, as the last line in /etc/modules
This resulted in no wireless at all, so I undid it all and reverted back to the native Linux orinoco_cs drivers, rebooted the computer, and I am back to the place I was before:
I can see but not connect to a wireless network
Note, for all the above, I disabled Mac Address filtering and encryption (no WPA, ...) so I did not have to worry about that.
I tried it for mode = Infrastructure and mode = Ad-hoc
aaaarrrggghhh!
I installed and configured the Windows drivers using ndiswrapper and when I went in to look at the results via
Menu->Administration->Windows Network Drivers
The driver was shown (as the only one) in the list and it had underneath it "Hardware Present: No"
So when I went to the Networking icon in the taskbar to see what the wireless network card saw, it was blank and the wireless entries were not even there.
I backtracked, removing the Windows wireless driver and went back to the Orinoco driver and I am now back to where I was - I can see but not connect to a wireless network.
Here's what I did:
Blacklisted the existing native (partially working) orinoco_cs wireless driver by editing /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and added, as the last line
Installed the following windows driver files into a new directory in /etc/network-wireless/lucent-agereblacklist orinoco_cs
changed the directory to /etc/network-wireless/lucent-agere and ran-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 159744 Jan 18 14:26 WAAGS48B.DLL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8704 Jan 18 14:26 WDAGS48B.DLL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31199 Jan 18 14:26 WLAGS48B.INF
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156672 Jan 18 14:26 WLAGS48B.SYS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172032 Jan 18 14:26 WNAGS48B.CPL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 917 Jan 18 14:26 WNAGS.CNT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 319216 Jan 18 14:26 WNAGS.HLP
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ndiswrapper -i WLAGS48B.INF
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ndiswrapper -l
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ndiswrapper -m
reboot the computerndiswrapper
This resulted in no wireless at all, so I undid it all and reverted back to the native Linux orinoco_cs drivers, rebooted the computer, and I am back to the place I was before:
I can see but not connect to a wireless network
Note, for all the above, I disabled Mac Address filtering and encryption (no WPA, ...) so I did not have to worry about that.
I tried it for mode = Infrastructure and mode = Ad-hoc
aaaarrrggghhh!