Invalid Driver with Linksys WPC55AG and Fedora Core 4

hndsoff8 · 12-21-2005, 10:31 PM

I've got a Dell Inspiron 1100. I am dual booting WinXP and Fedora Core 4, and I'm trying to set up my Linksys WPC55AG on it.

I tried using ndiswrapper on the windows driver (net5211.inf). It doesn't seem to have worked. When I list the installed drivers it says:

Installed drivers:
net5211 invalid driver!

Any clue as to why the driver is invalid?

Any help would be appreciated. I'm another linux newbie.

Hangdog42 · 12-22-2005, 07:24 AM

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I tried using ndiswrapper on the windows driver (net5211.inf)

The .inf file isn't actually the driver. There should be a .sys file with the same name (net5211.sys) and you need to have that file in the same directory as the .inf when you run ndiswrapper -i.

Oh, and welcome to LQ!

RHELL · 12-23-2005, 02:36 AM

A quick search indicates that the madwifi driver should support that atheros chipset.