Ndiswrapper on my CentOS 5 box.
Posted by hatim
I have a CentOS server in my home for linux practice. I have nicknamed this server as tivoserver as I plan to make it a TiVo box. I will later put MythTV on the system and station it in my family home in Abbottabad. But for now I had to install my D-Link PCI Wireless card onto CentOS 5. There are no linux drivers available for it so I searched for alternative solutions. Foryunately this card is supported by Ndiswrapper. I used the following two links to get it setup.
I downloaded ndiswrapper source and compiled/installed it. Then i put in the D-Link driver CD-ROM and got hold of Win2k/XP SYS file for the WiFi driver. It loaded itself easlity. I put in the configuration into
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
and every thing worked smooth untill i got some errors due to differnet channel selection.
The thing is that even though I explicitly say to the server to use channel 9, it some how was using channel 6. Ofcourse I am using the wireless connection in Ad-Hoc more for peer to peer communication.
