Alright I had an old version of knoppmyth installed and wanted to update to r5b7 but I had some severe issues with ndiswrapper 1.7 and my wireless pci card working. This is what I did below to fix it.

Did a fresh install of r5b7 after it was completed and booted into X sitting there waiting for a root password I ctrl+alt+f1 to bring up a virtual console so I could get my network card working before the install script finished. Logged in as root and:

I removed everything ndis related by



On another machine I then downloaded the ndiswrapper source from
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
Burned the tar.gz to a cd then mounted the cd on the knoppmyth box with the following commmands and installed it


Now I had the newest stable version of ndiswrapper installed on the knoppmyth box. I then mounted my netcards driver cd because the ndiswrapper list said to use these you can consult it at the following link for directions on your specific card:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/medi ... x.php/List



I then ctrl+alt+f7 to switch back to X windows and finish the installation scripts steps.

Hopefully I didn't make any errors on this post. I'm doing this from memory and hopefully its in the right place. My belkin wireless G desktop adapter now works with the newest knoppmyth and all is happy.

Could you add a note to the R5B7 install hints thread with a pointer to this? Thanks.

i belive the cd line should ommit the .tar.gz extension as it should be a directory
to make it

what were the "problems" that you were experiencing to inspire you to make theses changes?

i have forever had problems with my wifi and ndiswrapper, i believe the source of the problem is some sort of IRQ conflict with my tv card, every version of ndiswrapper seems to treat differently though