Hi.
Same problem here: all goes well up until
debian:/home/olivier/dlink# insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/misc/ndiswrapper.ko': -1 Invalid module format
IMPORTANT REMARK: there is an error in your article, the first time you quote the above command (after 'the old-school way', you forgot the leading '/' before 'lib/modules...'. Took me 10 minutes to figure it out. It's hard to be a newbie again
That aside, I am at:
debian:/home/olivier/dlink# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
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debian:/home/olivier/dlink# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
gplus driver present, hardware present
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It seems I'm on the brink of having it work, but i'm at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm on a fresh netinst (french), didn't do the alternate kernel trick since I don't mind crashing this newly-installed test install, i did apt-get update, wireless-modules (v1.1-2) and utils (v1.1-4) installed fine and required ndiswrapper-utils (through synaptics). There is only one ndiswrapper.ko in /lib, so this must be the right one ?
The link the the driver for my dlink g520+ on the ndiswrapper page was dead, so i installed the latest one (
ftp://ftp.dlink.de/dwl-products/dwl-...iber_Firmware/ which is v 04, ndiswrapper validated 02 which is no longer available), winXP version. That doesn't seem to be the problem so I haven't tried any other.
This is frustrating. I'm quite good at setting up win XP, and his is my 6th try at getting a Linux install to work for me. I try about every 6 months, but never managed to get everything I need working in 10 hours. I'm trying this time on a i810 motherboard to minimize driver problems... Next item on the install list will be VNC, if I can get past the wireless issue, since I can't live with a network cable running in the middle of my flat
Install does seem to get better each time (last time i had graphical bugs on the same PC), but up to now, no cigar. I do pick up some Linux knowledge each time ;-)
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm stuck.
Thanks a lot and congratulations for a very well-written and useful guide !
Olivier