Can't load ndiswrapper module

[hieronymus]

Peoplz,

I've got a problem with ndiswrapper in suse 9.2 x86_64.
I have installed my wlan driver via ndiswrapper:

 ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

This works fine, but when I try:

 modprobe ndiswrapper

I get a fatal error saying the module ndiswrapper can't be found. I have tried

 ndiswrapper -m

but this didn't help much. I have also noticed that the file ndiswrapper.ko doesn't exist.

Please help

[loft306]

hey did u check that u had the proper driver installed with

ndiswrapper -l

if you saw something like this then u do have a card supported by the driver that you loaded

installed ndis drivers
<driver_name hardware present

if not then u chosse the correct driver from this list check this url http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...98b64304abfbbf
and the driver list is here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...index.php/List
and most important of all is to use the drivers that are in this list even if u have what you think in the same driver...ther are not always the same

[hieronymus]

hey did you check that you had the proper driver installed with

ndiswrapper -l

if you saw something like this then you do have a card supported by the driver that you loaded

installed ndis drivers
<driver_name hardware present

if not then you chosse the correct driver from this list check this url http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...98b64304abfbbf
and the driver list is here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...index.php/List
and most important of all is to use the drivers that are in this list even if you have what you think in the same driver...ther are not always the same

Yep, I did that and I have the correct driver.....I gave up by now, I installed Gentoo with 32bit architecture and I will wait till ndiswrapper is ready for 64bit systems because I am guessing that the problem lies within the 64bit arch. I have my card working fine in Gentoo with ndiswrapper.

Thanks anyway, Jeroen