hoary ndiswrapper problems

[R S Gill]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 20:00 -0600, Samuel Thurston, III wrote:

>I just got a d-link wireless card, and wanting to make it work under
>ubuntu, I found that the card was supported by ndiswrapper.  I first
>upgraded my kernel to 2.6.11-1-686.  then following the instructions
>on the ubuntu ndiswrapper howto
>[http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/howto/ndiswrapper]
>I installed my chosen inf file (i chose to use the XP drivers, even
>though they all seem the same) and tried:
>
>sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
>
>I was surprised when I got the following message:
>FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper
>(/lib/modules/2.6.11-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko):
>Invalid module format
>
>Irritated, I installed ndiswrapper-source, kernel-package and the
>kernel headers, and built a new ndiswrapper module package.  I
>installed the new package, and then tried to modprobe it with the same
>FATAL results.   any suggestions on where to go from here?
>

Hi,

I had the same problem with ndiswrapper and no one here even replied to
my request for help.

I suggest you install the kernel version 2.6.10. I'm using this kernel
and ndiswrapper works fine.

Gill

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