ndiswrapper trouble

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I am trying to load the windows drivers for my toshiba laptop using ndiswrapper, however when I load the driver an error pops up saying “Unable to find the ndiswrapper interface!”. I am using the control center wizard to set this up btw.

Any ideas?

edit I’ve followed this guys guide but I don’t know the command to tell the device to obtain an ip automatically from dhcp

su to switch to root user

ndiswrapper -l this will list installed drivers
ndiswrapper -e followed by each driver listed to remove each driver
mdiswrapper -l make sure the list is blank

Download a driver for your card from
List - NdisWrapper
Use a driver from here if posiable as these are verified drivers, extract and save this in a folder Download for example

At the console prompt change to the directory where you copied the driver too

ndiswrapper -i filename.inf instal driver (Specify your driver .inf file)
ndiswrapper -l to ensure your driver is listed

Now you should see something like, showing your driver if not we have an issue!:
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

now at the konsole enter:

ndiswrapper -m
depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper

You will then need to configure your IP addressing etc. Select the “configure your interface line”

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When does it give the error? When you try to add the new driver, or when you modprobe ndiswrapper?

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I followed the guide above, but when I open ‘wireless connection’ in the control center it says ‘you do not have any wireless interface. run the set up a new network interface assistant from the mandriva linux control center’.

I encountered No errors when I followed the guide, yet it seems linux doesn’t recognize the wireless device?

also, when I use iwconfig the only devices that show up are lo, eth0, and sit0. Where’s the wlan0 at? lol.

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This could be to do with the possibility that your laptop has a button for enabling/disabling the wireless card. If it has such a button, try googling around for a driver to activate it. Otherwise, you have the same problem as me :(.

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switch was the first thing I looked at lol. where’s AT when you need him! :frowning:

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What chipset does the wireless card use?

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Intel 3945ABG, which I found the appropriate .inf and .sys files from ndiswrapper driver page