How To Install Ndiswrapper On Ubuntu

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                  1        The instructions below explain how to install ndiswrapper. This is                  2        rather short version; more details about installation,                  3        troubleshooting, FAQ etc. can be found in the Wiki at                  4                          5        http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki                  6                          7        Prerequisites                  8        =============                  9                          10        You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.13, with header files for the                  11        kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules                  12        directory. The command                  13                          14                ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build                  15                          16        should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.                  17                          18        Downloading                  19        ===========                  20                          21        Download the latest version of the ndiswrapper sources from here and                  22        extract it with the command                  23                          24                tar zxvf ndiswrapper-version.tar.gz                  25                          26        This will create ndiswrapper-version directory. Change to that                  27        directory and run                  28                          29                make uninstall                  30                make                  31                          32        Login as root and run                  33                make install                  34                          35        Install Windows driver                  36        ======================                  37                          38        If this is the first time you install ndiswrapper, you need to install                  39        Windows driver for Windows XP (in some cases Windows NT or Windows                  40        2000 may also work). First, get a Windows driver that is known to                  41        work. See http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/List for status                  42        about the device for which you are installing Windows driver. For                  43        this, you need to identify device ID with                  44                          45                lspci -nn                  46                          47        if it is PCI device or                  48                          49                lsusb                  50                          51        if it is USB device.                  52                          53        Then lookup in that List for the device ID and if a driver is known to                  54        work, get that driver. Occasionally, Windows driver on the CD or your                  55        Windows partition may work, but if it doesn't, don't complain - get a                  56        known-to-work driver.                  57                          58        Many Windows drivers are distributed either as zipped files or cab                  59        files. Zipped files, even if they are .exe files, can be extracted                  60        with 'unzip' in Linux; cab files can be extracted with combination of                  61        'cabextract' and 'unshield' programs.                  62                          63        Once the driver has been unpacked, locate .inf and .sys files. If                  64        necessary, move these files so both .inf and .sys are in the same                  65        directory. Some drivers also come with firmware files, such as                  66        fwrad16.bin etc. These files also should be in the same                  67        directory. Then install the Windows driver with                  68                          69                ndiswrapper -i driver.inf                  70                          71        This installs .inf file and required .sys and .bin files. Now, see if                  72        installation of Windows driver is "valid" with                  73                          74                ndiswrapper -l                  75                          76        This should report                  77                          78        "driver present, hardware present"                  79                          80        for the driver installed and if that driver is for the device that is                  81        already in the system. If device is not present, it should report                  82                          83        "driver present"                  84                          85        If not, the Windows driver has not been installed properly.                  86                          87        Now load ndiswrapper module with                  88                          89                modprobe ndiswrapper                  90                          91        If everything worked properly, this should initialize 'wlan0' wireless                  92        device, which can be configured with wireless tools, such as                  93        'iwconfig', 'wpa_supplicant' etc.