unable to get ndiswrapper to work need help!

[fredhand12]

i have spent the last 48 hours on google trying to get ndiswrapper to work on my hp laptop with centos 5.2

the card is a Broadcom BCM4310 that i had to configure in fedora also
i have the driver and ndiswrapper installed and i posted the screen shot of it installed with the
NDISGTK inteface (aquired to help diagnose problems)

the problem is no matter what i do how i configure modprobe for some reason unknown to me i cannot find anything productiveif on google the network manager wont recongize it.

i try to add a new wireless device under the centos manager nothing.

ndiswrapper -m gives this output

[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

module configuration already contains alias directive

[root@localhost ~]#
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

Does anybody know what i need to do to fix my ndiswrapper? i think its installed somwhere else and i have no idea how to fix it.
i posted a screen shot of the driver installed and reading my card.

[waterhead]

Not sure how to fix NDISwrapper. But there may be a Linux driver that you could try.

My research has found that this wireless may in fact be a bcm4312 chipset. There is a Linux driver released by Broadcom for the bcm4312, so you could try it.

Broadcom Corporation - Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver

I could be totally wrong about this, but only trying it will tell.

Edit: Here's one person's account on how to install it. Take from it what you will. But please read the instructions that usually come with a driver. In this case, the instructions are in a separate README file that you need to download.

*OFFICIAL* Broadcom Linux driver BCM4312 | You’re Special, Just Like Everybody Else.

[fredhand12]

i tried following those instrctions of that site and the tar wont compile but i have seen that driver before does broadcom have a 4310 driver? id try that. or does anyone (better yet) know ndiswrapper?

[waterhead]

They don't have a 4310 driver, which leads me to believe that it may indeed be a 4212.

If you post the first errors that you are getting, I may be able to help. Do you have the prerequisites installed for compiling?

kernel-devel
gcc
make

I gave up using NDISwrapper quite a while ago, when good Linux drivers for my wireless became available. How did you install it? If you installed it using a package manager, then there are two packages that you need installed. One is the NDISwrapper package itself, the other is the ndiswrapper kernel module for your exact kernel version.

[portia]

That's what I used on my centos 5.2:

# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
installing bcmwl5 ...
# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:432 present (alternate driver: ssb)
# modprobe ndiswrapper
# ndiswrapper -ma
module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

add:

alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

to /etc/modprobe.conf

Also make sure that it's configured in appears in system-config-network and that NetworkManager service is running.

It might work now, if not just reboot the computer and check your network manager.

[fredhand12]

alias wlan 0 ndiswrapper
-bash: alias: wlan0: not found
-bash: alias: ndiswrapper: not found

ndiswrapper -ma

module configuration is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

i have gcc and make dunno about kernel devel i think i do though i dont know how to check that one with a terminal.

Edit: the command for parsing the tar went thru but no new files appeared and after i tried it again it said the file did not exist.

[portia]

You can check if you've got the kernel-devel package:

yum list kernel-devel-`uname -r`

Note, that `uname -r` those are backticks ` not single quote '

In order to install it, you need to issue:

yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r`

Also, add the line about aliases to the end of the file: /etc/modprobe.conf

[waterhead]

You only need the kernel-devel (kernel source) if you compile a driver module. You don't need it for NDISwrapper. That is unless you decide to install it from source. Sorry to confuse you.

You do need the NDISwrapper kernel module for your kernel. I think that may be what you are missing. Use YUM to install it.

yum install kmod-ndiswrapper

[portia]

I don't think kmod-ndiswrapper is in Centos repositories (at least I can't find it)

[fredhand12]

kernel-devel is installed but only listed when i remove the uname -r from the command
it is version 2.6.18-92.1.el5
i tried the yum install said i had the latest one.