[ubuntu-uk] Problems installing Ndiswrapper in Wubi 8.04

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Tue Jun 10 09:26:32 BST 2008


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 07:04:46AM +0100, Gordon wrote:
> I need to install ndiswrapper in Wubi 8.04. It is not available in the 
> native package list, and when I wired the laptop into the network, and tried 
> "apt-get" I got the message that the "date-time stamp was too far in the 
> future"!!!!! Eh? How does THAT work? 
> 

Probably due to the fact that you're dual booting. Possibly Windows is 
assuming that the hardware (bios) clock is "local" time (BST) and Ubuntu has 
been told that the hardware clock is UTC (roughly GMT, which is an hour 
behind). Maybe :)

Cheers,
Al.



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