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** VIA Networking Solomon-A/B/G Wireless LAN Adapter
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** Driver for Linux
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** v1.10 June. 2005
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Introduction:
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Two ways to load the driver under linux system for Solomon-A/B/G Wireless LAN Adapter:
1. Using native linux driver contained in package(support kernel 2.4x only):
Please see the linux.txt document.
2. Ndiswrapper(support at least kernel 2.4.26 & 2.6.6):
There is a freeware "ndiswrapper-1.2.tar.gz" also contained in package and lastest updated
can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper.
"Ndiswrapper" is designed to load NDIS miniport driver under linux system. A quick installation
guide is described as followings:
1) Install ndiswrapper
tar xzvf ndiswrapper-1.2.tar.gz
make install
2) Load NDIS driver (located:"/ndiswrappre/vnt_ndis")
ndiswrapper -i VNWL.inf
3) Check if NDIS driver loaded
ndiswrapper -l
4) Load ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
5) Check if wlan0 interface is up
ifconfig -a
6) Configure interface
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid TestAP
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7) More details can be found in:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Installation
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.