Need help making driver for linksys wpc300n with ndiswrapper in 8.04

[mnemonik]

Hello, I've been having some issues trying to get my linksys wpc300n working with 8.04. I'm doing all this on a dual booting xp/ubuntu 8.04 dell inspiron 6000 and my only connection to the internet is through my wireless card so ubuntu is completely cut off. I managed to install ndiswrapper, all its utilities, and ndisgtk by following various guides; I copy pasted the blacklisting command; and I made a driver for my wireless card from the *.inf file in the windows driver, then tried to delete the extra *.sys files from the ndiswrapper folder but I get an "Error removing file: Permission denied" message. I googled the error and it seems most people had it with their trash, and what the needed to do was log in as a different user. Well, when I was installing Ubuntu I only made one account so I don't know what user I could login as to gain permission. Also, do I delete ALL the *.sys files, or do I keep the wpc300n.sys file (the other *.sys files are different wireless card models)? On top of all this when I run lspci all i get is broadcom stuff, nothing to do with linksys so I suspect that Ubuntu can't even recognize that the card is plugged in (the LED lights are off, but I had read that they don't work in linux).

thanks in advance. :)

[cariboo907]

If you run:

lspci

You will probably see Broadcom in the output for your wireless card. Just because it says Linksys on your wireless doesn't mean it was manufactured by linksys. You may find a better solution if you specify the Broadcom chip number.

Jim

[mnemonik]

mnemonik@mnemonik-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
03:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
03:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev 05)
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43XG (rev 01)



Edit: Does this help? It doesn't mean too much to me, but I do see broadcom. I just don't know if it is my ethernet, built in (and broken) wireless adapter, or the linksys card.