My router went down, so I have a temporary one installed right now that has no Wifi. I decided to pick up a USB Wifi dongle, and I want to use my Ubuntu server as the bridge. I have the driver installed, and was following the guide for setting up NDISWrapper on the Ubuntu Community manual. When I run ndiswrapper -l:
rt2870 : driver installed
device (0846:9012) present
... So I assume that it is installed. I then run depmod -a and get no output (assuming it works correctly), and then modprobe ndiswrapper... But that returns FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
This error seems weird to me, but I'll bite. I google the issue further, and find some people telling me to install 1.58 from the NDISWrapper website on Sourceforge. I try to run make in the extracted folder, but get this error:
Makefile:41: *** Please run 'make modules_prepare' in /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-17. Stop.
Still not working! But why did the previous ndiswrapper commands work? The output of ndiswrapper -v shows that it's (mostly) installed:
ERROR: Module ndiswrapper not found.
module version is too old!
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '0'
module details:
ERROR: Module ndiswrapper not found.
You may need to upgrade driver and/or utils to latest versions available at
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
This is getting very irritating, but I don't know where to go from here. When I run uname -r, I get 3.5.0-23-generic, if that helps any (a lot of scripts are asking for it)
Seems like ndiswrapper needs some preparation on the kernel headers to be able to use them. Execute the following in a terminal:
cd /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-17sudo make modules_prepareAfter this, compile the ndiswrapper 1.58 module.