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So, I have a linksys G wireless card and no idea how to get it working. On bootup the computer recognizes the card and asks for drivers from a built in list but I don't know if any of those are correct. So then, knowing nothing else, I used tried using ndiswrapper. I got as far as installing the .inf file and ndiswrapper -l returns:
drivername present
which I believe indicates that there is a device present that could make use of the drivers. I continue with the installation but when I check it at the appropriate point (sorry I'm at work and forget the commands) the output is:
winl no device present
eth0 no device present
eth1 no device present
when it should be returning a device for one of them. Anyone have any ideas for this? Is there another, better way to go? all help is much appreciated.
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