DISCUSSION: ndiswrapper on Debian Sarge without having to compile anything

Andruk Tatum · 05-18-2006, 03:41 AM

I'm tearing my hair out!

I have a D-Link DWL-G510 Rev. B card, and it is supported by ndiswrapper. I have the 2.11 drivers from the site (these are the ones that supposedly work on the ndiswrapper list), and when I do

Code:

ndiswrapper -l

it says "neta3ab: invalid driver!"

I am at my limits with this, but I am a

so it's probably me.

Before this command, I followed your guide to the letter, I don't know why it isn't working!
Please somebody help me before give up!

Igrok · 07-05-2006, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeZila

See if you can find the final manually by cd'ing to that place. If you come to a directory you don't have, tell me what one.

What directories are in "/lib/modules/"?

Did you remember the starting " / "?

Also, post the output of "uname -r".

The problem is that your tutorial left out the leading "/" in the lib/modules... directory. Most people are NOT in the root directory at this point and are blindly following your (EXCELLENT) tutorial and not paying attention to their context.

raakken · 01-07-2007, 08:38 AM

I guess this thread is'n alive, but I have a problem...

It doesn't load... I have to type
insmod /lib/modules/"2.6.18-3-486"/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
everytime I start the computer, or else the wifimanager can't find any device's...

I also can't use msn-clients or download files/ use apt-get/ synaptic...

can anybody help??

thanks

master · 01-08-2007, 03:40 PM

just thought i would add i am running debian 3.1 and to get ndiswrapper to load at boot time as root type "echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules"
please note that where i have done the quotes at the beggining of the word echo and the end of the word modules you DONT a quote is this "
Thanks nige

raakken · 01-14-2007, 10:03 AM

I guess this thread is'n alive, but I have a problem...

It doesn't load... I have to type
insmod /lib/modules/"2.6.18-3-486"/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
everytime I start the computer, or else the wifimanager can't find any device's...

I also can't use msn-clients or download files/ use apt-get/ synaptic...

can anybody help??

thanks