I am having issues with ndiswrapper. This is what I have done thus far:
Code:
root@debEtch:~# apt-get install module-assistant
root@debEtch:~# module-assistant prepare
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.16-2-xen-686
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.16-2-xen-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-2.6.16-2-xen
The following NEW packages will be installed
linux-headers-2.6.16-2-xen linux-headers-2.6.16-2-xen-686
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3433kB of archives.
After unpacking 28.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
root@debEtch:~# apt-get install ndiswrapper-source
root@debEtch:~# module-assistant build ndiswrapper
root@debEtch:~# apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8
root@debEtch:~# module-assistant install ndiswrapper
Selecting previously deselected package ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.16-2-xen-686.
(Reading database ... 68278 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.16-2-xen-686 (from .../ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.16-2-xen-686_1.16-1+2.6.16-14_i386.deb) ...
Setting up ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.16-2-xen-686 (1.16-1+2.6.16-14) ...
root@debEtch:~# wget http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5.sys
root@debEtch:~# wget http://biginoz.free.fr/linux/bcmwl5a.inf
root@debEtch:~# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
Installing bcmwl5a
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
root@debEtch:~# depmod -a
root@debEtch:~# modprobe ndiswrapper
root@debEtch:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
And this is where the problem occurs. wlan0 doesn't come up, I get the error saying:
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
I have posted this issue all over the web all day long and have yet to get an answer as to why or what I can do to correct it.
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