PCLinuxOS Ndiswrapper

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Go to PCLinux Control Center, Network & Internet -> Setup a Network Interface -> Select Wireless -> Use Windows Driver. Now select your .inf file. It will copy this file to /etc/ndiswrapper on it's own. Then do modprobe ndiswrapper.

Alternately you can download the ndiswrapper from the ndiswrapper site http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper

tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-version.tar.gz 

This will create the ndiswrapper-version directory. Change to that directory with:

cd ndiswrapper-version 

Installation Compile and install

Go to the ndiswrapper directory you just created and run:

 make distclean and make

As root, run

make install

This should compile and install both the kernel module and the userspace utilities. If you don’t need USB support in ndiswrapper, with recent versions, you can compile with

make DISABLE_USB=1 and install with make DISABLE_USB=1 install. 

Make sure the INF file, SYS file are all in one directory.

Now use the ‘ndiswrapper’ tool to install the driver with

ndiswrapper -i filename.inf

This copies all necessary files to /etc/ndiswrapper and creates the config files for your card.

After installing run:

ndiswrapper -l 

to see the status of your installed drivers. If you have installed the correct driver you should see something like this

bcmwl5: driver installed 

Then do:

modprobe ndiswrapper