Installing and configuring Wifi cards on Ubuntu

Hello,

Today i'm going to show you how to install && configure WiFi (pci, pcimcia, usb)cards on Ubuntu.

First step:

Get ndiswrapper - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

Second step:

Installing ndiswrapper

user@ubuntu:~$ tar xvzf ndiswrapper-1.31.tar.gz
user@ubuntu:~$ cd ndiswrapper-1.31
user@ubuntu:~/ndiswrapper-1.31$ make distclean
user@ubuntu:~/ndiswrapper-1.31$ make
user@ubuntu:~/ndiswrapper-1.31$ sudo make install

Third step:

Now you have to unpack windows driver for your card, for example to:

/home/user/drivers


Fourth step:

user@ubuntu:~/drivers$ sudo ndiswrapper -i driver_name.inf

You should see some similiar messages like:

forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2

Fifth step:

Now, thats moment of true...is driver installed? ;)

user@ubuntu:~driver$ ndiswrapper -l

You should see something like:

installed drivers:
mcv8000c: driver installed, hardware (14E4:4324) present (alternate driver: mcv8000c)

If so we're almost done...;]

Now:

user@ubuntu:~/driver$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper


CONFIGURING NETWORK:

You should install Wicd - http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

and just connect to wifi! Be cool!

Good luck!

Ps. I configured my wifi card about 9h, before i found good tutorial;)

Yours, spoondream.