Comments on: Installing Ndiswrapper on Ubuntu 8.04

By: Ankur Shrivastava

Ankur Shrivastava — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:55:36 +0000

@ Ralph
hey can you give the output of the command with your router connected to the usb
sudo /sbin/lsusb

By: Ankur Shrivastava

Ankur Shrivastava — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:53:26 +0000

@ Ralph
After searching all over i found your card has Broadcom chipset
but according to this it should just work http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=539943
although its not mentioned anywhere here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported
perhaps you can try http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3319452&postcount=28
if it all fails use bcmwl5.inf for it instead of one you are provided with.
Remove all the previous drivers that you might have

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:35:47 +0000

Here’s the product information it’s a wireless USB dongle.

Product: Dynex Enhanced Wireless-G USB 2.0 Network Adapter

Model Number: DX-EBUSB

By: Ankur Shrivastava

Ankur Shrivastava — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:58:51 +0000

@ Ralph
I have no about DYNEX,
but all i know is that if you have Dynex DX-WGNBC card you have to install the Atheros Driver ( no ndiswrapper )
but if you have Dynex DX-BGDTC then you will have to install bcmwl5.inf which is the broadcom driver (BCM 4318KFB)
tell me which card you have???

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:38:37 +0000

I’ve just install Ubuntu 8.04 and cannot get my DYNEX USB wireless network adaptor to work. After getting the windows wireless driver tool installed I tried to install the ndiswdm.inf file that was on the DYNEX install CD. After selecting the .inf file and pressing install the program freezes. I’ve tried to type ndiswrapper -l in a terminal and I get no feedback and I have to press ctrl-c to quit. If I force quit and try to restart the Windows wireless driver tool it will not start. I’ve rebooted and tried this a couple of times with the same problem. Do you know how I might fix this?

Thanks

By: Ankur Shrivastava

Ankur Shrivastava — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:51:29 +0000

@jkj
hey you dont have to paste all those lines at once
first type nano /etc/rc.local
then paste those three lines before exit 0 in that file

rmmod ssb
modprobe ndiswrapper

then press ctrl + x and save the file with the same name

it works with xp drivers without any trouble dunno about the 2000 drivers

if you still face problem contact me

By: jkj

jkj — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:51:22 +0000

i install ndis and the drivers without problems, in Windows Wireless Drivers the hardware was present

what i think i did wrong was
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open the terminal

type

sudo -i

(press enter)

then i paste the 5 lines together

nano /etc/rc.local
rmmod ndiswrapper
rmmod ssb
modprobe ndiswrapper
exit 0

(press enter)
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every time i try to connect to my unsecure wireless network the computer freeze and the keyboard lights start flashing

i try with windows 2000 and windows xp drivers

thanks

By: sp

sp — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:48:43 +0000

Thanks so much for this.

I guess those of Linux adopters who don’t want (for lack of time or lack of interest to learn the basics, must be thankful to those who do.

And to google, ofcourse

By: Soumen

Soumen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:02:06 +0000

the first
rmmod ndiswrapper isn’t required since it isn’t loaded at the time when ssb is forceloaded by the kernel for the chip. we just need to unplug ssb and plug in ndiswrapper