NDIS Wrapper problem

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 11:15 AM

O.K. so here's the deal....I have a linksys wmp11 v4 and i got NDIS Wrapper and everything but i con't for the life of me fugure out how to get it to work....I really don't know what I am doing wrong here....if anyone has a walkthrough type thing for this specific card it would be awesome....or if someone could just inform me of what i am doing wrong...Thanks..

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dcdbutler · 04-30-2005, 12:27 PM

your card is in the list so it should work.
did you follow the installation instructions? they can be found here on the ndiswrapper homepage:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php

Make sure you idenify your chipset correctly with lspci so that you can get the correct driver for your card.
cheers

XavierP · 04-30-2005, 12:30 PM

The Ndiswrapper website has a very easy to follow howto page. Their Wiki has a stack of info.

And welcome to LQ

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 12:36 PM

I got it for the most part but it's like my wirless card isn't showing up...i am folling a walkthrough in some book, and all the code is right until the very end

also, i don't know if it means anything but a lot of people talk about 4k something then i did lspci it said for my card the size was only 2k is that a problem?

dcdbutler · 04-30-2005, 12:41 PM

Put the book down and follow the ndiswrapper wiki. It worked for me and countless others. It's the ndiswrapper module you'll be loading after all.

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 12:58 PM

I'm very new to Linux so please bare with me...i just installed it today...:-/

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 12:59 PM

ok i'll try..is there any way i can start over...because i've done a lot
like uninstall the drivers and all that stuff?
kinda make it so it's like a haven't done anything yet, start fresh...

dcdbutler · 04-30-2005, 01:21 PM

Sure, there's uninstall instructions on the wiki as well at the homepage url I posted.

It may be that it's all installed correctly though and just needs to be configured, so you should go through the ndiswrapper installation instructions at the website first then the faq's and tips to see if you've missed anything when you were following the guide in your book. If you could also elaborate on some of the specific problems you're having, we may be able to help more.
good luck!

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 01:26 PM

Oh, O.K. Thanks you very much...I am going throught eh wiki now...but... it tells me Go to source-directory and do what is the source-directory and how do i get there? because it just told me to do cd ndiswrapper-1.1 then it tells me to go the source directory and i don't know what that means sorry it's prolly a really dumb question haha

dcdbutler · 04-30-2005, 02:02 PM

The source directory is the ndiswrapper-1.1 directory in this case.

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 02:17 PM

I am now having another problem..here's my code...

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]# ndiswrapper -i /home/cliff/lsipnds.inf
bash: ndiswrapper: command not found
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]#

what am i doing wrong?

dcdbutler · 04-30-2005, 02:26 PM

Looks like ndiswrapper is not actually installed.
what's the output of
$ which ndiswrapper
if which doesn't find it in /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper, or similar location, then it's not installed yet.

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 02:28 PM

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]# whereis ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper: /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper /etc/ndiswrapper /usr/share/man/man8/ndiswrapper.8
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]#

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 02:29 PM

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]# which ndiswrapper
/usr/bin/which: no ndiswrapper in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/cliff/bin)
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]#

cleofisgreat · 04-30-2005, 02:34 PM

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i /home/cliff/LSIPNDS.i
Installing lsipnds
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
lsipnds driver present, hardware present
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]# modprobe ndiswrapper
bash: modprobe: command not found
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]# /sbin/modprobe ndsiwrapper
FATAL: Module ndsiwrapper not found.
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.1]#