Install the IBMT41 wireless network adapter on debian4.0

Install the IBMT41 wireless network adapter on debian4.0-Linux Release Technology-Debian information. For more information, see the following. Note: The wireless network card of T41 does not have a dedicated driver for GNU/Linux. Therefore, if you want to use a wireless network card to access the Internet under debian4.0, you need to install an encapsulated windows driver or an intel firmware. Baidu has been around for a long time and there are two ways to implement it:

1. Install the encapsulated windows Driver using ndiswrapper;

2. Install intel firmware.

Ndiswrapper does not write a Linux driver, but uses a kernel module to call the Ndis driver in Windows. This cleverly solves the problem that these wireless NICs do not have a Linux driver. The project currently supports Wireless network adapters including Admtek 8211, Atheros AR5004, Broadcom 4301, Broadcom 4309, Broadcom 94306, InProcomm IPN2120, and Intel PRO/Wireless Lan 2100.

Strong advocates of free software on the Internet say that microsoft is installed on GNU/Linux, so we recommend that you install intel firmware. However, I am prompted to require the header file of ieee80211 when installing the 2nd method. My new debian package does not have this header file, so I gave up this method and switched to the 1st method, of course, 1st methods also cost a lot.

I think a good way to compare debian with fedora, redflag, and redhat is to make the system disk into one dvd and the library file application software into two DVDs, in this way, although the number of CDs is too large, you can use the new management package to select the software to install when you are not convenient to use the network and need to install software, which is much more convenient.

2nd methods are not successfully installed, so I only write 1st installation methods.

Preparation:

0. log on to the root user and # lspci to view the wireless network card type. My T41 types:

. 0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)

Okay. You can use ndiswrapper to encapsulate the driver in PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B.

Download ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz address http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/

2. Download The 21003B windows Driver and decompress the driver package w70n51. inf and w70n51. sys. The funny question is that after downloading the latest driver from the ibm official website, it is w70n501. inf. At the beginning, I didn't notice that after I copied the inf file and installed it, no error was prompted, but the invalid driver is always displayed when I looked for the device! I re-downloaded other versions of the experiment for countless times, and finally saw that the inf and sys file names are different, wondering if the name is not uniform, with a try attitude to w70n501. change inf to w70n51. after inf, the installation was successful.

3. Prepare the debian installation disc because you need to install some tools. If the network is convenient, you can use apt-get install to check your personal information.

Installation:

The installation process is root user.

0. Install the linux-header of the corresponding kernel and use it to compile ndiswrapper.

1. install wireless-tools and provide iwconfig and iwlist tools. I have installed these tools with a new package.

2、copy ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz to/usr/src/, tar-zxvf ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz

3. copy w70n51. inf w70n51. sys to/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.52/

As mentioned above, the inf file name is incorrect and needs to be modified. Otherwise, the installation will fail.

4. Go to the driver Folder: make, make install

5. Go to the utils Folder: make, make istall.

6. Install the xindows DRIVER: ndiswrapper-I w70n51. inf

7. ndiswrapper-l: Check whether the installation is successful. If "xxxxxx driver present, hardware present" is displayed, the installation is successful.

8. ndiswrapper-m, and load module

9. modprobe ndiswrapper: load the ndiswrapper Module

10. iwconfig allows you to view network devices.

Iwlist scanning can scan Wireless Networks

11. desktop-system management-networking, you can configure a wireless Nic.

12. Click the network connection icon in the upper right corner to view the current wireless network and so enjoy it.