[SOLVED] Need help installing ndiswrapper

[11zac11]

After installing ubuntu 8.04 I thought finely a OS I can life with, I get everything working apart form one thing, my WLAN card.
i have a Atheros 802.11 wireless card (so ubuntu says) and cant get it to work. After hunting for some time i found that by installing 'ndiswrapper' i could then get windows drivers to work. Only thing is im completely new to Linux and I cant work out how to install it :(. If someone can help me i would be very great full. Thank you all very much i hope someone gets back soon. Thanks all :)

[Pumalite]

Maybe these links can help>
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=618596&page=2

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuidep://www.linux.com/feature/56946

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsByVersion

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=512828
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=612065

[Pumalite]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=574501&highlight=Kevdog

[11zac11]

thank you very much the last one seemed to be the best but i have got stuck at the "Next create and place your Window's wireless driver into ~/driver:" point i cannot work out how to get it to work, i was woundering if you can help me with this?

[11zac11]

ok i got the driver files into the driver directory but when i do the next step "nsuring the ***.sys and ***.inf file for the Window's driver are in the~/driver directory:
Code:
sudo ndiswrapper -i *****.inf"
I get s message:
couldn't open net5211.inf: no such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 219

can anyone help me to fix this and get me onto the next step. thanks all

[EdenFuchs]

I also started using kevdog's wonderful manual. It all went well including copying and un-tar-ing the file I downloaded in another PC, and including distclean. When I typed the "make" command, it said after a few lines:

***CFLAGS was changed in "/home/eden/ndiswrapper-1.48/driver/Makefile". Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.

any advice?

[tarps87]

ok i got the driver files into the driver directory but when i do the next step "nsuring the ***.sys and ***.inf file for the Window's driver are in the~/driver directory:
Code:
sudo ndiswrapper -i *****.inf"
I get s message:
couldn't open net5211.inf: no such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 219

can anyone help me to fix this and get me onto the next step. thanks all

try:

sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/driver/*****.inf
This will make sure it is looking in the right place for the .inf file

Did this line work?

ndiswrapper -v

[11zac11]

try:

sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/driver/*****.inf
This will make sure it is looking in the right place for the .inf file

Did this line work?

ndiswrapper -v

Thank you very much i got that to work, ok next thing i have got stuck on :( i get to "Ensure you dont get any errors when running this command. Then:

Code:
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper"

and do that but then my system frezzes up and i have to switch it off

[tarps87]

This may be due to using the wrong version of ndiswrapper or the wireless driver.

You can try downloading the .deb install at:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/
The latest version for 32bit systems is
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.52-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
You should have all the dependences, so you should be able to open it and click install. The next package is at:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/ndisgtk
This is a gui for setting up ndiswrapper, it should be the same to install as the previous package.
Once installed type:

ndis-gtkor

ndisgtkto run it

[11zac11]

ok i did all that and in the "wireless network drivers" window it says the drivers have been install and hardware is present but i still cant connect to my wireless network any ideas why?

[Pumalite]

This might help you (not sure):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

[11zac11]

sadly that dosnt seem to have any more help in it either, thank you for trying though

[11zac11]

when i get to the "Ok, to insert the ndiswrapper module into the linux kernel:
Code:
sudo depmod -a
Ensure you dont get any errors when running this command. Then:
Code:
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper"

at the "sudo depmod -a" nothing happens at all then when i do the next code the system crash's