Episode #65
I am trying to install ndiswrapper with Ubuntu 7.04 in order to gain access to my wireless network and then the internet. However - and here’s the problem. The add/remove software lists ndiswrapper but needs an internet connection to download it. There doesn’t appear to be a .deb package available so I can download and install it using a package manager. The tarball doesn’t allow me to install and the information available in help files indicates that there is a ndiswrapper-common (plus a few extra files) I need to download an d install in order to get ndiswrapper working working with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn but redirects me to a site that doesn’t actually have ndiswrapper-common available on it. While Ubuntu is great in that it is the first version of Linux I have ever installed that immediately had support for sound (in fact that I could get working with sound) it is the difficulty in wading through everything else that still makes it difficult to choose over the dark side.
Eric, Hobert, TAS
There are sites like www.ubuntuguy.org and a lot of other sites have how-tos on getting ndiswrapper working.
Then of course that's only the first part because then you have to get the driver for your card and you have to get that working and that may not be that easy to do. I would go to http://www.ubuntuguy.org - there's a wiki page on getting ndiswrapper working.