Project Tablet: Wireless Network
August 23rd, 2009
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So I’ve been struggling with the eth5k drivers (and the madwifi alternative) on the tablet – both connect fine as long as my AP is unencrypted, but as soon as I add either WEP or WPA Personal security it just fails. In a last-ditch attempt to get wireless comms up, I’m installing the Windows XP network drivers into Linux using ndiswrapper.
Step Six: Installing ndiswrapper
apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
I’ve previously extracted the driver into /home/user/wireless
cd /home/user/wireless
ndiswrapper -i PRISMNIC.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -m
Followed by a reboot, picking a religion at random, and offering up a prayer.
It didn’t work. However, I got a warning that /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper needed a .conf extension – so I quickly renamed and rebooted again…
Aaand still not working 
To be continued…
