[LUAU] Wireless Linux Error

[Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr]

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Alex Boatwright wrote:

| hey all, I just got a new laptop and have been trying to get the
| wireless up and running in linux... good fun. The computer uses
| some no-name-brand of wireless pci card [creatix CTX714] based on
| some version of the prism chipset. I got the drivers working by
| using ndiswrapper to use the windows drivers that came with the
| box, and everything from iwconfig to the little bar I added on my
| desktop recognizes it. But there's one problem that prevents me
| from connecting to anything... whenever I try to bring up the
| interface through ifconfig eth0 up, it gives me the error::
| SIOCSIFFLAGS: no such file or directory I tried researching this
| thing but have no idea what it is and what file it's referencing
| too... I tried reloading all my modules, kernels 2.4.22-2.6.7 (no
| joke, all of them), 3 different distributions, and nothing changes
| that message. Any ideas?
|
| -Alex

Most of the prism-based cards I have used are rebranded.  I used a
Senao SL-2511CD Plus EXT2 and an SMC SMC 2532W-B.  Both are Prism
2.5-based and work with the current orinoco drivers and are considered
the easiest to set-up in Linux, even on RHEL3.  Have you tried
orinoco_pci?

I can't seem to find information on your card anywhere, do you have
lspci (or dump_cis if your pci-card is a bridge) output we can use to
identify the card?

I suspect the error is lack of fully implimenting wireless extensions
(what wireless-tools uses) in the ndiswrapper driver.

Tom
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