ndiswrapper problem

[Rick Stevens]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 17:39 -0800, 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 at localhost sbin]$ ./ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> bcmwl5          driver present, hardware present
> [harold at localhost sbin]$
> 
> [root at localhost sbin]# ./depmod -a
> [root at localhost sbin]#
> 
> [root at localhost sbin]# ./modprobe ndiswrapper
> [root at 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?

Just enter the command "dmesg".  Also check the file /var/log/messages.

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