Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 141.150.127.185]
on August 24, 2007 07:35 AM
Nice, clear article -- and just in time to help me get 802.11g going on my laptop.
One problem that I had to overcome:
"delete ... the kernel module from /lib/modules/<kernelname>/misc" will cause mischief if you do it with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), as I found out the hard way.
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
A "gotcha" using these instructions with Ubuntu.
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 141.150.127.185] on August 24, 2007 07:35 AMNice, clear article -- and just in time to help me get 802.11g going on my laptop.
One problem that I had to overcome:
"delete ... the kernel module from /lib/modules/<kernelname>/misc" will cause mischief if you do it with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), as I found out the hard way.
The files
/lib/modules/<kernelname>/kernel/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper
and
/lib/modules/<kernelname>/kernel/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
are not packaged with ndiswrapper in Ubuntu; rather, they are packaged with the kernel.
After deleting them manually, I had to reinstall the kernel package (linux-image-<kernelname>)and reboot to get my wireless card working.
I hope my mentioning this might spare someone else having to figure it out the hard way.
#