I have almost gotten through installing Ndiswrapper (in Mandrake), but something went wrong. I know I have the correct Windows driver, because there are apparently several versions of my equipment (Linksys USB wireless adapter, WUSB54G) and Linksys provides driver downloads for all of them, so I quit trying to guess the correct one, and simply plucked the drivers off my installation CD. "Modprobe ndiswrapper" worked without an error, but the system log says there is a problem. Dmesg produced:


eth0: no IPv6 routers present
cdrom: hdc: mmc-3 profile capable, current profile: 8h
cdrom: hdc: mmc-3 profile capable, current profile: 8h
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded
ndiswrapper: loadndiswrapper failed (256)
VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev fd0.
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
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Does anyone know what error #256 would be?

If it's significant, my system is: Celeron; 598 MHz; 256 MB RAM; 10 GB HD.

ndiswrapper version .8?
dude, first get a new version. it might be just that.

Well, sir, I tried to install a more current RPM, but for some reason, it won't overwrite the 0.8.

remember to uninstall before you install a newer version.
I don't use mandrake. but i'm pretty sure it has to have a package remover.