wifi card installation help

michael michael at aioc.net
Wed May 25 19:13:31 UTC 2005


i have given up.........


On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:03 -0400, Jose A Merced wrote:

> I put this together from several wikis. This is Ubuntu-specific. I guess it
> should.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Beattie" <mtbeedee at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: wifi card installation help
> 
> 
> On 5/25/05, Jose A Merced <fj60cruiser at charter.net> wrote:
> > Before trying this, make sure you remove all instances of ndiswrapper from
> your system. This is how I got ndiswrapper to work with my wifi card:
> >
> > 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 and 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. The driver is a standard Windows XP .inf file.
> >
> > 8. Once the driver is copied to a convenient location, type ndiswrapper -i
> filename.inf
> > 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
> >
> > Once everything works fine you can write the correct modprobe settings to
> load ndiswrapper automatically when wlan0 interface is used, by running
> >
> > 13. type ndiswrapper -m
> >
> > Note that this doesn't automatically load ndiswrapper module at boot time.
> If you want the module to be loaded automatically at boot time, you should
> configure your module setup, which depends on the distrbution. Most
> distributions will load all modules listed in /etc/modules at boot time. For
> them, you can add the line
> >
> > ndiswrapper
> >
> > in the /etc/modules directory.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > From: michael <michael at aioc.net>
> > > Date: 2005/05/25 Wed PM 12:22:24 EDT
> > > To: Ubuntu tech know how <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > > Subject: wifi card installation help
> > >
> > > I have just loaded ubuntu and still am a new bee to linux.
> > >  i want my wifi card to work..have read some docs ...but!@#$!@#
> > >  please can somebody help...installed ndiswrapper..ect..but still not
> > >  working..
> > >  please help
> > >
> > >
> >
> 
> You want to wikize this?  It's a good list of what to do to get
> ndiswrapper working if there's not something similar there already.
> 
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