As I recall, you previously had the system locking up when you did the modprobe step. This seems to be some progress.
Yes, step in the right direction...
Use ndiswrapper -l to see the interface drivers and device are present.
Yes, driver is loaded and hardware present.
Have you tried using iwlist to see if the adapter finds any local access points? It should see the access point even if it does not connect, and should tell you about it.
Sure does.
Other things that might interfere are mode, channel (I think 1-12, but 6 is usually the default for the AP), and maybe others. I usually try to get the connection without encryption, then enable encryption later.
Yes, had not specified the channel but tried it with channel 6 which is what my router is using. Still no luck. I was trying it with encryption off for a while. I can try it again.
My ifcfg-wlan0 is:
I'll give this a shot too.
IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=no USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY= TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=wlan0 HWADDR= BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR= DOMAIN= ESSID='my_essid' CHANNEL=6 MODE=Managed RATE=Auto
That worked first time with dhcp, although I have done the same with static IP addresses as well. The only things I change for a static IP is IPADDR, GATEWAY, NETMASK, and BOOTPROTO
If I am using WEP the entry is made in keys-wlan0
Thanks, James