Hi there gurus,

I'm struggling with my wifi dongle (D-link DWL-G122 A2) and ndiswrapper. I'm trying to follow Ubuntu help and other online instructions to the T but no joy.

As mentioned in the Ubuntu help, I need to install ndisgtk to get to the Windows driver install utility via System admin. Well.. ndisgtk is nowhere to be found on the install CD and I don't have internet yet on this machine without this wifi dongle, a very heavy workstation which I can't just haul through the house to an ethernet cable connection.
I need to install wifi first before I can connect... catch 22.

Where can I get ndisgtk without being online on the machine I need to install it on?

Please have mercy with a command line boob, so please no (certainly well-meant) command line replies.

Any (user-friendly non-code) hint much appreciated.

Ask a friend to download the package and burn it to cd for you.

Go to an internet cafe and download and burn it for yourself.

Or any other tactic that resembles one of these.

Since you have an ethernet cable elsewhere in the house, is there a computer connected to it that you could use to download/burn the package to cd?

Thanks much! Lucky me, that did it.

I didn't know that installing an isolated package was so straightforward, because of dependencies, incompatible versions, beta release, release candidate...etc etc, it was always a big rain forest for me. From what I read it is always preferable to install everything through synaptic or apt-get but well, there must be exceptions that are as smooth.