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!