Hello,

I'm using Damn Small Linux-Not as a Live-CD. It is running on an old PII MMX 200 MHZ with 96 MB RAM. My WLAN-USB works with a rt73-chip.

After installing the WinXP-driver with ndiswrapper, modprobe ndiswrapper, ndiswrapper -m, I recieve the following (in random order :-):

lsmod | grep usb:
usbhid 42464 0
usb_storage 68544 0
usbcore 102492 7 ndiswrapper, usbhid, usb_storage, ohci_hcd, uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd

lsusb:
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 14b2:3c22
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

[14b2:3c22 is indeed the rt73-WLAN-USB]

ndiswrapper -l:
Installed drivers:
rt73 driver installed

iwconfig:
l0 no wireless extension

dmesg | grep ndiswrapper:
ndiswrapper version 1.14 loaded (preempt=yes, smp=yes)
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper


So, the USB-WLAN (should be wlan0) is not getting recognized. I assume it's a problem of assigning the specific usb to wlan
(despite
ndiswrapper -m:
Adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper)

Any guesses, any further 'diagnostic' commands to help solving the problem?#

Thank you

sardo