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    Another AirPort Wireless Thread - Trouble with ndiswrapper

    I have tried getting the proper drivers and installing them with ndiswrapper. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to work. The chip is the Atheros 5418, which according to what I've found, should require the ar5416.sys driver, with the net5416.inf and net5416.cab files. I have all these, but I cannot seem to get my drivers properly installed.

    I try: sudo ndiswrapper -i net5416.inf
    and get:
    couldn't open NET5416.INF: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 181.

    Then if I type ndiswrapper -l I get:
    net5416 : invalid driver!

    Thank you very much in advance for your help.

    Steve

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    Re: Another AirPort Wireless Thread - Trouble with ndiswrapper

    Quote Originally Posted by SteveRonan118 View Post
    I try: sudo ndiswrapper -i net5416.inf
    and get:
    couldn't open NET5416.INF: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 181.
    I have following files in my /etc/ndiswrapper:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M 2008-04-26 15:22 ar5416.sys
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24K 2008-04-26 15:22 net5416.inf

    Both have lowercase extensions.

    I suppose ndiswrapper doesn't understand uppercase .inf extension. I'am not perl programmer but regular expression at line 181 (s/\.inf//) doesn't expect uppercase.

    Try to rename this binary crap to lowercase and import them once more.

    PS: Have you ever heared about ndisgtk?

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    Re: Another AirPort Wireless Thread - Trouble with ndiswrapper

    remove the non-working driver first with ndiswrapper -r

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