Can't get Wireless LAN working (Linksys WPC54G)

[ttech]

Okay guyz, I've been working on this off and on for over a week now. Finally giving in and crying for help. I'm trying to set up a WPC54G card on a Winbook J1. The card plugs in and the PWR light turns on, but that's as far as I can get So here's what I've tried.

First of all, I'm running gentoo-sources 2.5.25

Starting off, I tried installing ndiswrapper version 0.8
Downloaded the source from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-0.8.tar.gz?download
untarred and did make install, per INSTALL doc.
to get drivers loaded I did

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
ndiswrapper -i /mnt/cdrom/lsbcmnds.inf

and because I read the WPC54G needs this also

ndiswrapper -i /mnt/cdrom/bcwml5.sys


Good, no errors loading the drivers, but now.

minibox root # ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5.sys
lsbcmnds

Drivers are loaded but there's no "present" next to them.
lspci shows:

minibox root # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP]
0000:00:05.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
0000:00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 6a)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)


And even after I type modprobe ndiswrapper, ifconfig and iwconfig show both show only lo, no eth0 or wlan0, etc. Am I missing something to get the card picked up?

Next I tried to use Linuxant's DriverLoader. Downloaded the generic source tar from http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads.php,
untarred and ran make install. At the end of install, it says:
To complete the installation and configuration of your device,
please run "dldrconfig" (or "/usr/sbin/dldrconfig")
So I ran dldrconfig

minibox driverloader-1.72 # dldrconfig
Linuxant DriverLoader for Wireless LAN devices, version 1.72

No pre-built modules for: unknown-unknown linux-2.4.25-gentoo-r4 i686-SMP

Trying to automatically build the driver modules...
(this requires a C compiler and proper kernel sources to be installed)

Where is the linux source build directory that matches your running kernel?
[/lib/modules/2.4.25-gentoo-r4/build] /usr/src/linux
Building modules for kernel 2.4.25-gentoo-r4, using source directory
/usr/src/linux. Please wait...
driverloader: Device or resource busy
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.o
depmod: acpi_bus_generate_event
depmod: acpi_os_free
depmod: acpi_bus_get_device
depmod: acpi_root_dir
depmod: acpi_install_notify_handler
depmod: acpi_extract_package
depmod: acpi_evaluate_object
depmod: acpi_bus_register_driver
depmod: acpi_bus_unregister_driver
depmod: acpi_get_handle
depmod: acpi_remove_notify_handler
depmod: acpi_bus_get_status
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/block/nbd.o
depmod: devfs_register_series_Rsmp_f3efa40e
depmod: devfs_unregister_Rsmp_9ef1ce4c
depmod: devfs_mk_dir_Rsmp_e231615a
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-gentoo-r4/kernel/drivers/input/input.o
depmod: devfs_register_Rsmp_b875c5ec
depmod: devfs_register_chrdev_Rsmp_9f50cf99
depmod: devfs_unregister_chrdev_Rsmp_77f3e0ce
depmod: devfs_unregister_Rsmp_9ef1ce4c
depmod: devfs_mk_dir_Rsmp_e231615a
done.

No devices detected by driverloader

If you need license keys, assistance or more information, please go to:
http://www.linuxant.com/

When reporting a problem for the first time, please send
us the file generated by "dldrconfig --dumpdiag".

To complete the installation, please point your browser to:
http://127.0.0.1:18020/
minibox driverloader-1.72 #

GAH! No devices detected!
I'm pretty sure I enabled wireless PCMCIA support in the Kernel. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to try next? This probably isn't everything you need, so please let me know any additional information you want to see. I'm open to anything right now. Thanks in advance!

[Devsforev]

I hate to say it, but join the club.

I am working on a laptop with the same exact card, running NDISWAPPER, and i have had NO LUCK at all.

I have tried 8 differnt drivers, all fail.

I all have but given up on this card...... sorry to say it man.

[Icarus]

Did you get a license for the Linuxant driver? I've found that it will absolutly refuse to work unless you have givin it the license code.

As for the ndiswrapper, is there a config script to setup the devices?

[ttech]

Devsforev, Yea I found a lot of posts about this card. But for the most part they were all on different distros and if they did get it to work on Gentoo there was no explicit details as to what to do. If I do get this working, I'll definitely get a how-to up for everyone else out there.

Originally posted by Icarus
As for the ndiswrapper, is there a config script to setup the devices?

From what I gather in the instructions, you should be able to load the drivers, and then doing ndiswrapper - l
will list the loaded drivers with a (present) next to the one that is plugged in. It appears as tho my card is detected by linux, but not being enabled by the drivers... Does that make sense?

[ttech]

*BUMP*