OK, I need serious help here getting wifi back after upgrading my
Ubuntu-64 Hoary (5.04) to Ubuntu-64 Breezy (5.10). I have spent
hours and hours and none of the instructions I have found work.
Computer R3240
64-bit Windows driver that worked with Ndiswrapper (1.2) before:
bcmwl564.sys
netbc564.inf
I can get the driver installed -- ndiswrapper -l says driver present.
But when I modprobe ndiswrapper (as root) I get "Fatal: Error
inserting ndiswrapper ( ... path to ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not
permitted."
I have read numerous reports from others who got the same error
message after upgrading to Breezy, but their instructions for how
they fixed it do not work.
I have also gone to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowtoUseNdiswrapperOnAmd64Ubuntu
And tried to install all over again from the beginning. I get as far as
make deb, but dpkg -i ndiswrapper*amd64.deb just gives me error
messages. Those instructions are not clear -- you're never sure
which directory you're supposed to be in when you do things, and
there is no information about what to do when something goes
wrong (like what the error messages mean).
I also went out and got ndiswrapper 1.4 when I tried to install from
scratch, but still no joy.
I also made sure the headers are installed -- Synaptic shows the
following installed:
linux-image-2.6.12-9-amd64-g (version 2.6.12-9.23)
linux-image-amd64-generic (version 2.6.12.16)
And headers:
linux-headers-2.6.12-9
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-amd64
linux-headers-2.6.12-9-amd64-generic
It would help if I wasn't such a n00b at Linux. I can't even figure out
how to move up one directory from the command line without
retyping the whole path from the /.
Without wifi on this computer every time I need to get on the net
and I'm at the university I have to go home and use my windows
computer (25 minutes each way). This is seriously sucking.
Someone please help!
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