[WBEL-users] Wireless LAN Woes - SOLVED

[Daniel J. Summers]

Just thought I would update the list now that I've found a solution to 
using my iBlitzz NetWave PCI wireless network card.  (It's running right 
now on FC2, but it went so seamlessly that I can't imagine it would be 
that different under WBEL...)

My solution is to use a currently beta open-source product called 
"ndiswrapper".  The site is located at 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net .  It's basic premise is to take the 
Windows drivers that most all companies distribute with their network 
cards, and utilize them, "wrapping" the low-level calls with 
Linux-compatible ones.  They have RPMs available for RHEL 3 (which I 
imagine would work with WBEL), and I used the source tarball and 
compiled and installed myself.

The only thing that the install didn't say is that once you get the 
module loaded, recognized, and written to the automatic probe file, you 
need to restart before wlan0 would show up so you could create an actual 
connection with it.  This product seems like it would work with almost 
any card (the principle would be the same), and is a great way to use 
network cards that aren't on the HCL.


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