Re: ndiswrapper problem

[Ted Potter <tpotter techmarin com>]

On Saturday 05 November 2005 05:39 pm, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> I'm trying to get the built-in wireless working on my new HP Pavilion
> zv6233nr laptop. This is an AMD Athalon based machine, so I'm using
> FC4-64. Following the instructions on
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation ,
> here's some of the installation...
>
> [harold localhost sbin]$ ./ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> bcmwl5          driver present, hardware present
> [harold localhost sbin]$
>
> [root localhost sbin]# ./depmod -a
> [root localhost sbin]#
>
> [root localhost sbin]# ./modprobe ndiswrapper
> [root localhost sbin]#
>
> Note that depmod did not return an error. The instructions say,
> regarding modprobe
>
>  If you get no error the driver should now be loaded. You can verify
> this by checking system log produced by dmesg. If the driver is loaded
> successfully, you should see a message in the system log
>
> ndiswrapper version <version> loaded
>
> I find nothing in /etc/dmesg, and it appears ndiswrapper was not
> loaded. So, what am I doing wrong?
>
> THANKS!
>
> Harold

try this
cat /var/log/messages

or 
dmesg

but that last one may not see the latest entries in the log. The first one 
will show everything.





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