quietearth [General News 01.19.07]



I'm using ubuntu, and unfortunately most ndiswrapper required cards dont work out of the box (or at least it seems so to me). I bought this card and looking at the acx100 source forget project, it kind of stated it would work, but the directions were far from clear. Using the builtin acx kernel module and the one compiled from the project yielded nothing, even with trying all the different firmwares. But lo and behold, ndiswrapper will work wonders, go to the section

11. Compiling the latest version of ndiswrapper
on page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper


After all this I was able to load the driver and get it working properly, with wpa.

But for the lazy, heres all the instructions, replace the ndiswrapper version with whatever one your using:

#!/bin/sh
modprobe -r ndiswrapper 
apt-get --purge remove ndiswrapper-utils 
rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/ 
rm -r /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
rm /lib/modules/$(uname-r)/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
apt-get install dh-make fakeroot gcc-3.4 build-essential
tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-1.28.tar.gz
cd ndiswrapper-1.28
make uninstall
CC=gcc-3.4 make
fakeroot sudo make install
cd ..
rm -Rf ndiswrapper-1.28
ndiswrapper -i (your driver/bla.inf here)
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -m

Drew (4 years ago) Reply

thanks this helps a lot

Hacky Maximus (4 years ago) Reply

Greeting from Romania!
Can you please tell me if your card comes with the RTL8185 chipset? Mine does and I have some problemes with ndisweeper which keeps complaining about the official winXP drivers (downloaded from both Trendnet and Realtek websites).
Thanks a lot!

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