Wireless card

[Jose A Merced]

This is what I did. I'm using Ubuntu Warty 4.10

Using the Synaptic Package Manager, download from the Universe the following packages:

1. fakeroot, build-essentials, linux-headers-2.6
2. Download ndiswrapper from ndiswrapper.sf.net (file name ndiswrapper-1.0.tar.gz)
3. As ROOT ("sudo -s"  or open a ROOT terminal window) copy ndiswrapper-1.0.tar.gz to the /usr/src folder
4. On the command line of the terminal window type tar zxvf ndiswrapper-1.0.tar.gz
5. Change to the new ndiswrapper directory by typing "cd /ndiswrapper-1.0"
6. Type "make deb" and the installation of ndiswrapper is automatic
7. Type "dpkg -i ndiswrapper*" to set ndiswrapper

Now that ndiswrapper is all set, proceed to install the driver.

At ndiswrapper.nf.net you can find the drivers for your specific wireless card.

8. Once the driver is copied to a convenient location, type "ndiswrapper -i filename.inf" where filename is the name of your particular .inf file
9. Type "ndiswrapper -l" to verify the status of the installed driver. You should see something like:

Installed ndis drivers
drivername driver present, hardware present

10. To load the module type "modprobe ndiswrapper"
11. If no errors were generated, you should see the transmit light on your card flash. 
12. If you dmesg, you should see something like:

wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device xx:xx:xx:xxxx:xx

Now you need to establish connection with your AP. Use the networking app and you are all done! This is the method that worked for me.

> 
> From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net>
> Date: 2005/02/24 Thu AM 08:12:29 EST
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Wireless card
> 
> Has anybody had success in getting the Asus-Wl138G card working? If so,
> please tell me which driver/ndiswrapper version you used. Currently I
> get nothing but errors from dmesg :(
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> Dennis K.
>   And that's the way the cookie crumbles!
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Jose Merced
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