Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: > > You're absolutely right. So here's a detailed account of what I've > done, following what was exposed (in French) here: > http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/ndiswrapper > (Yeah, it's for Ubuntu, but that seemed good to me anyway.)
>From your next message, I saw that you solved your problem by upgrading. (That's my favorite way to solve things too!) Still, in case you need it later, and for completeness, let me say a couple of things about ndiswrapper. (In my case, the native driver, rt2500pci, has problems if the signal is low and/or in ad-hoc mode, so it's useful to be able switch to ndiswrapper occasionally.) > 1. I've copied the WinXP driver files (it was recommended to use > those, even if they're 32bits and I have 64bits) into /home/wifi, > created just for that. > > 2. Then, into that directory, I've done "ndiswrapper -i net8192cu.inf" > > 3. I've checked with "ndiswrapper -l", which returned: > > "net8192cu: driver installed". > > (There were other failed drivers from previous attempts; I removed them.) > > 4. I've done "ndiswrapper -m", which returned: > > WARNING: All config files need .conf: > /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release. > module configuration already contains alias directive > > The existing alias directive must come from a previous manipulation. It's been a long time since I performed these steps but I don't remember needing this "-m" step for my driver. > 5. Then "modprobe ndiswrapper" returned: > > WARNING: All config files need .conf: > /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release. > FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. On the machine where I use ndiswrapper there's nothing related to it in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. (Another hint that the "-m" step was not necessary for me?) The message saying that the module was not found is important. I think that French page that you linked to had instructions for compiling the module, but I don't see any such steps in your message. Did you compile the module? (What does "/sbin/modinfo ndiswrapper" say?) I can't remember if this came up before, but there is a package called ndiswrapper-source. I install that and whenever I upgrade the kernel I need to rebuild the module for the new kernel. I do this with the help of the module-assistant package. (BTW, I recommend installing the linux-headers-... meta-package for your architecture, otherwise you won't be able to build the module for your new kernels.) Anyway, with module-assistant "m-a a-i ndiswrapper" will build a deb package for the module and install it.) > 6. I went to see that /etc/modprobe.d directory, and I saw several > "<whatever>.conf" files and one extension-less "ndiswrapper" (don't > know where it comes from, probably previous manipulations again). I > thought I could solve that (how naive), and copied "ndiswrapper" > into "ndiswrapper.conf" (by the way, the contents of this file is a > simple line: "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper"). > > 7. "modprobe ndiswrapper" returned the same two messages, so I > deleted the "ndiswrapper" file, and now it only returns the second > one (FATAL). > > 8. That's where I stand now (except "ndiswrapper -m" doesn't return > the warning now that "ndiswrapper" is deleted). > > I don't know if that's important, but installation of ndiswrapper > was done (if I remember correctly) with dpkg, not synaptic, since I > couldn't use that offline. > > I hope that'll help you help me, > Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111124205256.ga30...@cs.utexas.edu
