No compatible Drivers for Ndiswrapper from Vista
I've been working on getting wireless internet to work on various installs of linux (fedora 7/6, ubuntu) but i've found that ndiswrapper never worked. I found out why. The reason is because it doesn't support the Vista drivers (yet), the only problem is idk how to install the old XP drivers to Vista, or where in the jumbled mess they go.
I am running unbuntu / Vista ultimate on a Compaq V3000 with a broadcom 802.11g wireless network card. I'm all ears if anyone has an idea :scratch: |
i'm confused. why would you need to install the xp drivers to vista?
there are a lot broadcom cards, could you be more specific. |
Ok now i'm getting equally confused. To answer the question of which card, i'm afraid i know no more. It is an integrated card. The Compaq website wasn't too helpful either (no listed tech specs on the card)
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...817059&lang=en But when you ask why i need to install the drivers on Vista... now i'm not sure. I was under the impression that you had to install the drivers to the windows OS then copy em out so they would work with Ndiswrapper. Is it possible to just extract the .inf file from the download of the driver installation? If so how would this be done? Sorry if I'm not too helpful i'm really new to Linux |
yeah, you need the .inf file from the driver disk of better yet the recomended one listed at the ndiswrapper site. ndiswrapper works best with xp .inf files so that should not be a problem (may work better in linux than vista until they get a vista driver written)
then it's just ndiswrapper -i filename.inf to install modprobe ndiswrapper to load it ndiswrapper -l to generate a list to see if the driver is assigned to the card. do a lspci -m and a lspci -n and post the results so we can nail down which .inf you need. |
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Heh ok think i found the driver. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...os=228&lang=en Which Os do i DL it to Vista or Unbuntu? |
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may be easier to do it on a windows machine(haven't used vista so that may be totally inaccurate) , it will unpack things and then run the installer. just hit cancel when it tries to install and go to the files it unpacked and grab bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys, the rest are unneeded. put them on a floppy or cd and transfer them to ubuntu another link to an alternate driver: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R140747.EXE |
ok ran into many walls but finally got ndiswrapper running /w the drivers (some what oddly but running) so i decided to install the firmware :p and run it from there, it seems abit more reliable using the firmware. TY for the help rshaw.
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