When attempting to install drivers with ndiswrapper I always get the same results.

This command:
"ndiswrapper -i /ndiswrapper-1.14/wg311v3.inf"
will render this result:
"Installing wg311v3
couldn't copy /ndiswrapper-1.14/wg311v3.inf at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 139."

I've tried placing the files in different directories. I also tried files from the CD as well as downloading files from Netgear and Marvell (v3 uses Marvell 88w8335 chipset). I ran the command with and without the directory path. The result is always the same.

After the attempted installation "ndiswrapper -l" will show "wg311v3 invalid driver"

FYI, ndiswrapper ver. 1.14 installed without error.

I have the feeling I'm missing something, as I have read several post of people getting this card to work with ndiswrapper. Any help for a newbie would be appreciated. Thanks.

It appears from your first command string that the 'inf' file is in the ndiswrapper directory. Is this correct? If so, just use the command ndiswrapper -i wg311v3.inf and that should load the driver. I too have tried to load driver from a different directory other than ndiswrapper. Found it worked best to just copy the required files into ndiswrapper directory. Do a ndiswrapper -l command to verify that driver was loaded.

I'm trying to get my linksys WMP11v27 to work under ndiswrapper with no luck. See my post under my login ID.

I just tried that again. I got the exact same results. That's what's driving me crazy. I'm thinking that it's finding the file, but for some reason is unable copy the information into /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper.

This is the second version of ndiswrapper that I've tried. I also tried ver. 1.13. I also put the driver files in their own directory along with various combinations of .sys files and included that path in the command string. Still no luck.

try putting .INF instead of .inf. it worked for me

If all else fails...

Have you tried manually copying the .inf and .sys files into /etc/ndiswrapper/<drivername>

I think that's the correct path naming... it's been a while since I used ndiswrapper.

Editted:
I have a Netgear WG311T: There seem to be different (incompatible) drivers for each version, and I never did succeed in having it work with ndiswrapper. It works well with mad-wifi after I discovered I needed to add:
"iwpriv ath0 authmode 2"
to the startup script.

This is an old thread and it's been some time since I've been on that system at all. However I did resolve the problem by installing the 16K stack size kernel. After that I didn't have any problem installing the drivers. Just make sure to boot into the correct kernel if you have more than 1 installed, and to download and install the corresponding kernel-devel.

Hi guys. Check out my mini wiki on how to install the WG311v3 Driver on Debian, i hope it can be helpful. And feel free to contribute thoughts and ideas to make it better!

WG311v3 LINUX WIKI