[STICKY] (Merged) How-To use/install ndiswrapper

Hi,

if you have a problem with your wireless device and cannot get the drivers to work, try using "ndiswrapper" which will use existing Windows drivers!!:

The link below is courtsey of : http://www.linuxquestions.org/

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/ans ... ef7e93bfc3

Regards Wolfman

And just to add something else. In my opinion, use ndiswrapper (or windows wireless drivers) as a last resort. Linux is very well supported as regards wireless drivers (especially the latest kernels) and, at least in theory, it should work far better with linux firmware, rather than with windows drivers.
(And not to mention that is better to keep our system linux operated in all sectors).

I am not going to hide behind my finger. I also have a netgear wireless usb stick and I could only get it working with windows wireless drivers.
I just said "use it as last resort"!

I have seen that there is a problem with the windows wireless drivers module (ndiswrapper) in Zorin 6 core.
Through terminal I have tried to see the version installed and the message of the terminal was that the version is too old.

Therefore, you should install the latest ndiswrapper as follows:

Go here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswra ... es/stable/ and download the latest stable version (i.e. ndiswrapper-1.57.tar.gz)

Go to your Downloads folder, find the ndiswrapper-1.57.tar.gz file, right-click it and select "extract here".

Then open terminal and navigate to the extracted folder and install ndiswrapper as follows:

Code:

cd home/yourusername/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.57
sudo make
sudo make install

Ofcourse replace "yourusername" with... your username!
This will install the latest ndiswrapper and hopefully your wireless windows .inf files will now work.

Note to all:

two topics merged together:

Installation and use of ndiswrapper

Regards Wolfman