Re: installing driver with ndiswrapper

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:12:00 +0800
Umarzuki Mochlis <umarzuki@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to install my laptop wireless driver with ndiswrapper
> 
> eden:/home/umarzuki/Desktop/Downloads# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl6.inf
> installing bcmwl6 ...
> eden:/home/umarzuki/Desktop/Downloads# depmod -a
> eden:/home/umarzuki/Desktop/Downloads# modprobe ndiswrapper
> FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
> 
> Why did that happened?
> eden:/home/umarzuki/Desktop/Downloads# aptitude search ndiswrapper
> i   ndiswrapper-common              - Common scripts required to use the
> utiliti
> p   ndiswrapper-source              - Source for the ndiswrapper Linux kernel
> mo

You need to build and install this one
aptitude install ndiswrapper-source
if you don't already have it installed
aptitude install module-assistant linux-headers-2.6-<amd64 or i386>

m-a build ndiswrapper
m-a install ndiswrapper

> i A ndiswrapper-utils-1.9           - Userspace utilities for the
> ndiswrapper Li
>