Wireless Card issue

[mhoke63]

Trying to get my wireless card to work. (Asus PCE-N15) I am trying to use ndiswrapper. I keep getting this error:

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Unable to find the ndiswrapper interface!

When I run ndiswrapper -l it does recognize the hardware:

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net8192ce : driver installed
        device (10EC:8178) present (alternate driver: rtl8192ce)

The OS does recognize it as a network adapter, but I cannot get anything to come up to work with it. iwconfig comes up with this:

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eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

I would be happy to provide anything else. Any help would be appreciated.

[digigold]

Forget the wrapper for the moment. Your card uses a Realtek rtl8188ce chipset which is supported well in Mageia. Make sure you have both the rtlwifi-firmware and the kernel-firmware-nonfree packages installed. (Available from MGAs non-free media source)

If you still have problems you can use the necessary drivers direct from realtek here.

[mhoke63]

Thanks. Away from home right now, so can't try that yet. I assumed there was a package since the source code for the GNU/Linux driver was available on the CD. I couldn't get it to compile from source. However, I didn't know the name of the package to install.

[doktor5000]

And for the ndiswrapper part, you may need to manually load ndiswrapper via

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modprobe ndiswrapper

before running network configuration.

[digigold]

Hey dok, is the ndiswrapper really even necessary for him?

[doktor5000]

No it's not necessary and i'd always recommend a native linux driver in the first place. For completeness sake, just wanted to add the information how to get it working.

[martinw]

You might find this thread helpful, particularly the comments about removing ndiswrapper.