[xtremepenguin]

I just dl ndiswrapper 0.8 for my linksys wmp54g pci card (i have slack 10 btw).
I have several problems, even though i have been trying to work it out for about an hour (even though im a noob)

1. I was told to copy ndiswrapper to my home directory and uncompress it with

tar -xzvf ndiswrapper-0.8.tar.gz

however, I get the following error message:

tar: ndiswrapper-0.8.tar.gz:  Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

2. In the ndiswrapper INSTALL file, the the first step in the instructions is this:
Compile and Install
---------------------------
As root run

> make install

This should compile both the kernel module and the userspace utilities.
The problem with this is that when i type

 make install

into the terminal, konsole tells me this:

 make: *** No rule to make target 'install'.  Stop.

Do I have to include the path to the file? Also, I don't know what userspace utilities are. :S

3. The second step in the INSTALL file is to install the windows driver:
Download the Windows XP drivers, upack it and locate the .inf for your card. Run ndiswrapper -i to install the driver.

> ndiswrapper -i </path/to/inffile.inf/>

This copies all necessary files to /etc/ndiswrapper and creates the config files for your card.


But, when i run

 ndiswrapper -i /root/wlan-setup-drivers/wmp54g_driver_utility_v1.3.zip/Drivers/BCMWL5.INF

,

I get

-bash: ndiswrapper: command not found

I wont include the other instructions, because they are not relevant at this point (Im not even sure the last instructions were relevant) ,but I appreciate all help thx for reading long post

[xtremepenguin]

ahm...anyone?

[U-Turn]

Step 3 won't work until you've successfully completed step 2.
Step 2 won't work until you've successfully completed step 1.
Step 1 won't work if you aren't in the directory containing the tarball.
If the tarball is in /home/james(for example) you need to change to that directory before you can untar it. So:

cd /home/james

then

tar -xzvf ndiswrapper-0.8.tar.gz

Next, in order to execute a script in the new directory, you have to be in that directory. So:

cd ndis*

then

make install

Once this script finishes doing its job, you can continue.

[xtremepenguin]

Successful so far, except now I am on step 4 and I have another problem:
When I am setting the ESSID, the command (as I understand it) is

iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid name>

I get no error message, but when I check iwconfig, the ESSID is still set to " " which is default.

[U-Turn]

It's been about 6 months since I've used ndiswrapper so, where configuration is concerned, I'm a little rusty. Assuming you've installed the Windows driver and loaded the nodule, I'm at a loss to assist.
You might be able to find the info you need here:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=323168