Ok I have everything set up the drivers cheak out when I enter "ndiswrapper -l" but when I go to "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper" I get "FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-amd64-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted"
I have asked for help on the Ubuntu forums but they are not listening to me at all...

I am using ubuntu and I installed ndiswrapper from apt-get I tried this with both the gui and the cli gui and I get the same effect any help I would *love* to this point, thank you.

just curious: which chipset wireless card do you have? Does the chipset not have a native linux driver which is forcing you to use Ndiswrapper?

I have a broadcom (heh go fig...)

I have not tried getting Broadcom nics to work with Linux, but I did find this page:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/support.html

I read it was impossible but according to reviews on my lappy it only works on i386 and I don't want to use only half my processer

Linuxant has a driver that uses will allow you to load the windows driver for the broadcom chipset. The driver is $19.95 and I have been able to get it running with my HP 6130us AMD 64 system using Mandriva

Thats the thing I want it all to be free but if I come to that I well try it I am moving on to gentoo if what I have now doesn't work

hey
You have aspire 5020 series ... if so .. you have to install bcmwl5a.inf this driver

No I have a 64 bit system

I had the same problem and I had to uninstall the wrapper. I found that I installed it "Make" as usr, and "make install" as root. I needed to install both make, and make install as root. Also not sure what driver you are using, but I was getting same error for bcmwl5. I changed the path to windows partition and used bcmwl5a and it worked fine. No problems surfing wireless since then.

Is this post still active? the previous post I entered is incorrect. I have experianced the same problem after updating my kernel. There is a stale version on ndiswrapper.ko installed with the kernel sources. You have to uninstall ndiswrapper and then remove /lib/modules/[current kernel version]/extra/ndiswrapper.ko
re-install ndiswrapper then make sure that you have the right link to sources ln -s /usr/src/linux-<kernel-version> /lib/modules/VERSION/build
then make your new path to driver in ndiswrapper but use bcmwl5a and you should be running

Broadcom drivers now supported natively in Ubuntu Dapper Drake (version 6.04, not yet released but available -- see this thread

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=410460

Thank you for re-activating the current thread -- maybe this is why my friend had problems in FC4 with ndiswrapper

Mike

Thanks for pointing to the new post, I will check it out and see if it's worth working with on SuSE 10 ndiswrapper is working fine at the moment. But if I update the kernel there seems to be extra work that might not need to be done.

Thanks

Chris