Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

5.10, 6.10 its close! You should have 1.18 which is a bit newer. You can check in synaptic with a search for ndiswrapper. Sorry about that.

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Para, why did you edit out your post? I found the link, but you had some other stuff there. The ndiswrapper I have is 1.18, but according to this link the version I want is 1.5. Unless that's a misprint and they meant 1.05 or something, that's sounds newer than what I have.

Geoschmo

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Version 1.5 is from 2005-10-30 and 1.18 is 2006-06-22. After looking a while whoever made the ubuntu 6.10 ndiswrapper-utils also had trouble with looking at version numbers. XD
Did you install ndiswrapper-utils or ndiswrapper-utils-1.8?
bug

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

I have:
ndiswrapper-common .............1.18-lubuntu2
ndiswrapper-utils .............1.1-5
ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 ..........1.1-5

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Yeah you want the 1.8 utils
run
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8
sudo ndiswrapper-1.8 -i /path/to/inf/SiS163u.INF
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
</pre><hr />

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Ok, I didn't do that yet, but I've made some progress. I found a post one place stating the XP driver may not work and to try the other versions. I got the driver to install with no errors by using the Win2K driver instead of the XP driver. Here's what I get now...

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0457:0163 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
sis163u driver installed, hardware present


It looks like progress to me, but I still cant' seem to figure out how to get the device to connect to my wireless network. And the led on the adapter isn't on. Any ideas?

Geoschmo

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
</pre><hr />
Then look at the end of /var/log/messages for errors. Then go into System - Administration - Networking and set stuff up. If all works run this to load the mod at startup:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
sudo ndiswrapper -m
</pre><hr />

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Ok, didn't see any errors in the log file. But when I do this...
sudo ndiswrapper -m

I get this...
modprobe config already contains alias directive

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

Look for ndiswrapper in the list
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>gedit /etc/modules</pre><hr />

Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
 

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp


That's all. Don't see ndiswrapper in it.