How I got ndiswrapper working after edgy->feisty upgrade D-Link DWL-G650+

[Rich Lott]

Upgrade Edgy->Feisty went well, pretty much (excluding the gui, adept, whose 
instructions went nowhere, but good apt-get worked).

But then I noticed problems with ndiswrapper. At first nothinghappened when I 
inserted my card, no lights at all, nothing in dmesg other than "card 
inserted".

Here's what I did:

remove existing version
$ sudo modprove -r ndiswrapper


install latest utils package
$ sudo aptitude install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

download latest kernel modules from sourceforge:
$ wget 
http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.42.tar.gz

untar and follow instructions in INSTALL file (as root)
...

reinstall windows XP driver....
$ ndiswrapper -l
   gplus : driver installed
$ ndiswrapper -r gplus
$ cd path/to/dwl-g650+_rev_bx_drv_v204/driver/WinXP
$ ndiswrapper -i GPLUS.inf

then it worked.

phew.

hope this is useful to someone.