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title: wireless networking with ndiswrapper link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/wireless-networking-with-ndiswrapper/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 697 created: 2007/06/07 05:19:00 created_gmt: 2007/06/07 05:19:00 comment_status: open post_name: wireless-networking-with-ndiswrapper status: publish post_type: post

wireless networking with ndiswrapper

The house laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1200) just got an upgrade to Fedora Core 6, so I had to once again set up wireless networking on it. My prefered route is to use ndiswrapper, because it supports so many different cards. Basically I followed the instructions found on the project’s web site. The steps were simple:

Install the kernel source rpm for the running kernel (for CentOS this would be something like kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.i686.rpm, you usually can get by doing a “yum install kernel-devel”). If installing from a downloaded rpm file, use “rpm -ivh
“.
Download and unarchive the ndiswrapper source tar.gz to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.
Change directory into the unarchived ndiswrapper directory under SOURCES and make an rpm using make rpm.
Install the rpm (found in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS).
Download and unarchive the D-Link driver for the card (in my case a DWL-G650C b/g device).
Install the desire driver with ndiswrapper -i DRIVER.INF from within the unarchived driver directory.
Do a modprobe ndiswrapper.
Edit modprobe.conf to include the following lines:

options ndiswrapper if_name=wlan0 alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

Create a ifcfg-wlan0 (see example below) and a keys-wlan0 file (containing the line KEY: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to hold your config and credentials for WEP authentication.
Restart the network and take the laptop for a walk around the house.

Following is a copy of my ifcfg-wlan0 file:`

Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC

DEVICE=wlan0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless
MODE=Managed
ESSID=mynetworkessid
RATE=Auto
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
HWADDR=
CHANNEL=1
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
`