I am using suse 9.2 pro free version (32 bit) and i am trying to get ndiswrapper (0.10.3 that came on the suse disk) to work with my belkin pci wireless G card based on the broardcom chipset. I have managed to install the drivers with ndiswrapper and when i type ndiswrapper -l it says drivers are installed and hardware is present, but when i type modprobe ndiswrapper the system crashes (can't move mouse or do anything). If I try going iwlist wlan0 scan or dhcpcd wlan0 the system crashes in a similar way. Anyone know how I can fix this?


Please note i am a complete noob at linux so u will probably have to tell me exactly what to do as I probably won't know what u are talking about.

Well I posted sort of the same thing couple days ago , and no body answer back ....may be because nobody knows the problem.

But I had the same problem that you have now, and I can tell you my experience about it , Im noob just like you.

I fixed it ,installing a new ndiswrapper version 0.12 ,I had the alpha release before ....with the same crash problem.
I used several version and I find out this version very stable with no problems at all.

I been in front of my computer for the last week trying to get ready my Wirelees Linksys WMPG54G v4 on Mandrake 10.1 ,Nobody helped me out , buddy .
I had to solved it myself.
So good luck dude and if there something that I can help you just post it.

I gotta everything undercontrol now, and I got internet ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,LOVE LINUX

You don't happen to know how to install ndiswrapper 0.12 do u? Its just that i have never managed to do i successfully.

Hello there,

Version 1.0 was released recently. Can I suggest you check out the installation wiki at ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net. This has some distribution-specific that you may need.
Regards
Chris

I trying to install the 1.0 version but there is no guide to suse except telling u to install the version that came with suse.
anyway when i type "make" I get this error:


inux:/home/andrew/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.0 # make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andrew/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.0/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8-24-default/build SUBDIRS=/home/andrew/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.0/driver \
NDISWRAPPER_VERSION=1.0 \
EXTRA_VERSION= modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24-obj/i386/default'
make -C ../../../linux-2.6.8-24 O=../linux-2.6.8-24-obj/i386/default modules
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: gcc: command not found
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 12: gcc: command not found
CC [M] /home/andrew/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.0/driver/hal.o
/bin/sh: gcc: command not found
make[5]: *** [/home/andrew/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.0/driver/hal.o] Error 127
make[4]: *** [_module_/home/andrew/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.0/driver] Error 2
make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24-obj/i386/default'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrew/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.0/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

ok managed to fix that problem but now i have a new one
when i type "modprobe ndiswrapper" it says:

Error 2

# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper

(/lib/modules/2.6.8-24-default/extra/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format

Well i managed to fix that problem aswell. In fact i am now posting this in linux

the solution was this :
rm /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/ndiswrapper.ko
cp /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/ndiswrapper.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra

found it on some site hopefully someone else will benefit from this knowledge

Anyway thanks for your help.

Dang, that might just be the answer I was looking for!
Been having the same problem with the latest FC3 kernel
Will post back later
Nope, that didnt work. Still on 737, no big deal.