Hello
While trying to install ndiswrapper and my Windows driver to access the internet the process installed the driver but modprobe wouldn't work because according to the error message it could not insert ndiswrapper. Since it wouldn't work I started from scratch by entering the commands:
1)ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5.ind
2)make uninstall
3)makedistclean
4)make
Then I tried to run the command:
1)tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz
But I got the error "no such file or directory". It seems everytime I ran the tar command after that I got that same "no such file or directory error".
Consequently, I deleted all of the directories and files I created regarding ndiswrapper.
That is when I found a directory name "ndiswrapper" in the "/etc" directory that I didn't create. Also in that niswrapper directory I found 2 files named "bcmwl5" (without the ".inf") and a file called "bcmwl5.sys". The difference between the bcmwl5 files in that directory and the ones in the directory I found is that the ones I burnt onto cd from Windows were colored green and the bcmwl5 files I found in the ndiswrapper directory are blue like directories in addition to the fact that the .inf file extension was missing on one of them.
I don't know whether these files installed when I installed Linux and if so, am I supposed to use them? But more important, since I deleted everything using the commands I mentioned earlier I can't run tar on the ndiswrapper file anymore because it says no such file or directory even though I copied them back to disk after I deleted them. How can I make Linux see tar, ndiswrapper directories and files again when I run tar again?

It sounds like you just started doing stuff without understanding what you were doing, which is usually not a good idea. Lets see if we can sort this out a bit.

Running the tar command after everything else makes no sense. That command is used for unpacking a tar.gz archive file, which you would have had to do before you compiled the source code.
That probably means you've deleted the file at some point, or it isn't in the same directory as where you are running the tar command. No biggie, if you deleted it you can always download a new copy from the ndiswrapper site.

That directory is created when you run make install, or when you install a pre-compilied version of ndiswrapper. You need to re-install anyways, so it will get created again.

Again, that was done as part of the normal install and was nothing to worry about. Those are the driver files ndiswrapper actually uses, so once you've re-installed, leave them alone.

OK, lets start from the top. Download or copy over a fresh copy of the ndiswrapper-1.4.7.tar.gz file, get into the same directory and then run the tar zxvf command.