Re: wireless - is it possible?



Default User (<xyzzyx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>) wrote:

I did install ndiswrapper-common, but when I run sudo ndiswrapper, i
get:
"Error: no versions of ndiswrapper found!"

man ndiswrapper only says:
"ndiswrapper is a wrapper for the version-specific ndiswrapper-X.X
programs (where -X.X is ndiswrapper is a wrapper for the
version-specific ndiswrapper-X.X programs (where -X.X is the version
number of the utils; ie, ndiswrapper-1.8). It simply figures out
which
version should be called, and calls the appropriate binary. Each
version?s man page contains its usage details."

Well gee, that sure explains it all . . .

You did not install the ndiswrapper programs and the ndiswrapper kernel
module. Install ndiswrapper-utils and run

module-assistant auto-install ndiswrapper-source

After that, follow the configuration guidelines in the ndiswrapper Wiki
on ndiswrapper.sf.net. For the future, use apt-cache show $packagename
and apt-cache search $keyword to get more information on the packages
you are about to install.

regards
Andreas Janssen

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