im using a .inf file to install a driver for my wireless card, but when i try to open it it just brings me to kwrite... i know u can choose different programs to run it but i don't have the right one, please help!

Why do you want to open the file anyway? You don't need to. You do know that you need to use NDISWrapper under Linux with those Windows files, right (unless of course there's a native Linux driver)?

oh, no i didn't, i have been searching the internet for these kinds of answers without much success, i don't know how to open ndiswrapper once it is on the computer, do u know how to install it, im an extreme noob

what would i need to install the WUSB54Gv2 linksys wireless G network adapter? like what type of file and how i would get it to work on linux, i have mandriva 2005 LE

Funny thing about the .inf file. That is a hardware description for the Windows hardware installer. Linux doesn't know anything about it.

Ndiswrapper has been discussed here at length in many posts. You can find these discussions if you go to the top right of any LQ page, look in the section named Main Menu. The second link down is Search. Select that. It will bring you to the LQ advanced search. Put ndiswrapper in the search string, select "Search titles only", select "Search previous week only", and click on the search button at the bottom of the page.

Some hardware wireless cards have a driver specifically for Linux so you wouldn't need to use ndiswrapper. You would have to go to the web site of the hardware manufacturer and check the support or downloads or drivers section of their web page. So in your case you first go to the Linksys web site and see if they have a Linux drive for your card. If not then use the instructions that I provided to find discussions here on ndiswrapper.

yeh thanks but, when i download Ndiswrapper, i download it to my mp3 player, then i switch it to my computer upstairs. when i try to install it from that point i am totally lost, why is it so confusing, why can't there just be a little icon that says install and just be over with it, i have searched through that file in and out and i have yet to find how u can install it, either my computer needs a program to read the type of file i need to install or the file is simply not present.

I already told you how to search for discussions here concerning ndiswrapper.

Or look here:

http://techrepublic.com.com/5255-625...917&id=4093177

According to the article that I just linked to you do need the .inf file. My bad.

NdisWrapper's site also has an installation guide..