easy install for linksys wireless card

[David McGlone]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 8:17:51 pm Kevin Jones wrote:
> Hello  all,
> I have a Linksys WUSB 54 G ver. 4
> wireless router. I have KDE ubuntu 7.10.
> Can anyone tell me of an easy way to get the wireless card to work. I
> have searched the web and looked at NDIS wrappers. the instructions for
> this are little beyond me. Most particularly I do not want to download
> and install anything that does not work and later proves to be an
> obstacle. I have an ethernet connection on a different pc in another
> room, and router is also linksys.
> does any one have any suggestions?

using ndiswrapper is actually easy. Get your driver and save it somewhere then 
type in console:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils
sudo ndiswrapper -i <your driver name>
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Everything should work now.


-- 
David M.