I previously followed the directions in this post to get my netgear wg311v3 working with r5c7. When r5d1 came out, i upgraded, but I had the problems in this post, which no one at the time seemed able to solve, so I went back to r5c7. I now have r5e50, and I love a lot of the upgrades and would love to keep it, but I can't get my wireless working with this one either. I'm not sure if the problems are related to the same issue I had with the previous release or not. The driver seems to install fine. ndiswrapper -l returns but modprobe ndiswrapper is now returning: I'm not really sure how this is possible, since ndiswrapper is obviously installed...any suggestions?

the first one installs the drivers onto your system.

the second loads ndiswrapper. have you got ndiswrapper in your modules file?

if you're refering to /etc/modules, yes, ndiswrapper is in there

I'm not sure if it makes you feel better but I have the same issue with ndiswrapper and a Dlink DWL-G520. Somebody on a different forum suggested it may need to get re-compiled for the current kernel. I'm not sure if that is the issue though... and since I hosed my kernel headers I can't try it.

Ralf

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i couldn't run mine in its current form. apt-get remove ndiswrapper and downloaded the source and reinstalled it and it worked great.

not sure why i got some line errors when using the version that came with knoppmyth.

hmm...guess i'll have to give that a shot then...wish me luck...

ok i just tried to install e50 and had exactly the same problem. Wasn't able to re install ndiswrapper since the kernel isn't in the system now. The headers didn't seem to be enough to reinstall ndiswrapper from source and since i don't have net access since the wifi can't connect i can't download them.

hmmm...so maybe I shouldn't try reinstalling ndiswrapper yet? I have a wired internet connection right now (running down the hall of our apartment), so I could install the kernel source, but my understanding from other posts is that that won't work so well? Anybody have a solution for this?

It seems the actual ndiswrapper module (to be loaded with modprobe command) is no where to be found on R5E50.

Maybe someone could post a precompiled ndiswrapper.ko module file to save many of us the work of downloading sources and building?

Thanks in advance if anyone decides to do this.

Has anyone had any further luck with this? I'm using a Linksys WMP54G and this is the only issue keeping my remote frontend(R5E50) from being operational.

no...I haven't gotten mine working yet either. I looked, and there does not appear to be an ndiswrapper.ko on my system. Is it perhaps called something else? It seems odd that it could just not be there, because wouldn't that mean that no one would be able to use a wireless card with R5E50?

I tried an experiment last night, but no luck. I installed a fresh copy of R5D1 and ndiswrapper works perfectly with my WMP54G card. I had the wireless operational, but because my backend is R5E50, I can't connect. I then tried to AutoUpgrade using R5E50. No go. I even saved off my ndiswrapper.ko from R5D1 and then tried to put it back in R5E50. It didn't like that, either.

Add me to the list. The module is not on the distribution, nor are the kernel sources needed for me to build one. I'm not a Debian user normally and was totally lost trying to find the proper sources on their servers. I have no idea where to find sources for 2.6.18-chw-13...

I guess I'll just have to download something from kernel.org and pray

Edit: There I go sticking my foot in my mouth...(from the wiki):

Here is the module that I compiled last night if anyone wants to try it. It is for the shipped version of ndiswrapper and kernel from R5E50. It seems to work with the exception that my wireless card won't actually associate with anything

Good times. If you do download the module, don't forget:

And you might want to uninstall your windows drivers first and check your /etc/ndiswrapper directory to make sure it's empty before installing and using the module...

That did the trick for me. Thanks for posting the module.

Edit: Well the module loads but my card's lights are not coming on. So, we're getting one step closer.