HOWTO: WLan via Ndiswrapper

[stevenyu]

whay can't ndiswrapper not just come stansard on Drake?

Unh, Drake doesn't have ndiswrapper package in there? OMG

[Audiophiliac]

I installed Ndiswrapper. Then installed my drivers. Driverand harware can be seen. After sudo modprobe ndiswrapper my wifi card blinks. But when I run wireless tools, it says device doesn't support scanning. Plus my adapter doesn't appear on my Networking panel. Should it?

[DarthMandeep]

Unh, Drake doesn't have ndiswrapper package in there? OMG

The Dapper LiveCD includes the ndiswrapper module in its kernel, but it doesn't have ndiswrapper-utils, which is needed to intall any drivers and actually make ndiswrapper work. This pissed me off to no end.

The text-mode install cd for Dapper, however, includes the ndiswrapper-utils package. I have no idea why the Dapper LiveCD can afford to include "Dive Into Python" but not ndiswrapper-utils.

[Mordak]

Will this howto work with the netgear WPN111 wireless usb adapter? I've been reading around a lot lately and havn't found much, but rumor has it this should apply.

If so, can someone help me out on how to get ndiswrapper-utils on my installation of ubuntu, and then how to get the damn thing working? im so new to linux this howto may even be too difficult for me.

[linux_author]

- sorry ubuntu, but leaving out ndiswrapper-utils from 6.06 is pretty bad... (just confirmed on the x64 live cd)

- very disappointed here - bad, bad move!

<sigh>, i guess i'll have to stick with KANOTIX64 and Slax-USB for my AMD64 notebook...

[scoo007]

hii all

when i do this :

sudo make
sudo make install

i get this eror:

sudo: make: command not found

[jbmigel]

Great howto! worked like a charm in dapper with BCM4311BG
The hardest part was finding it since it is buried here in the hoary archives

[jameswrogers]

I am experiencing difficulties getting my Belkin wireless card working with ndiswrapper on Kubuntu.

I get as far as here without any problems:

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present


Then when I modprobe ndiswrapper I get no errors but the lights on the card remain off. The message I see when I modprobe with verbose is:

# modprobe -v ndiswrapper
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko


When I check the system logs I see:
kernel [17179718.568000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)


I believe there should be a couple of other entries in the log:

ndiswrapper version <version> loaded
ndiswrapper: driver ''driver1'' added


These two entries are missing from my log, so that's obviously the problem. But I can't figure out why.

If you have any ideas I would greatly appreciate the help. By the way, I am a novice when it comes to operating systems.

[jameswrogers]

One thing I forgot to mention:

# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 177364 0
usbcore 130820 4 ndiswrapper,usbhid,uhci_hcd


Does that look right?

[gondilon]

When I try to install my driver I get the following error:
couldn't copy bcmwl5.sys at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 144.
please help!