Installing wireless card. Noob inside!

J.B · 13 Dec 2008 at 14:02

Hey guys, I have had Ubuntu on my laptop for a while now and quite like it. I've come to install a PCMCIA wireless card (Linksys WPC54X)

Found this guide and I thought great, its supported!

So I got the line "sudo ndiswrapper -i NETANI.INF" but I've ran into trouble, basicaly its looking in usr/sbin for the NETANI.INF driver, but I downloaded the driver to my desktop. It just keeps saying "couldn't open home NETANI.INF: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 219."

I'm sure there is a simple way to do it....any help?

Atrox Moris · 13 Dec 2008 at 14:41

The simplest thing to have done was get a card with an atheros chipset instead. Have a gander here and the rest here.

J.B · 13 Dec 2008 at 15:10

Well I didnt really want to fork out for a new card, I had this one lying around and when I read it was compatable I thought it would be simple thing to get working.

tophee · 13 Dec 2008 at 16:04

put the file in /usr/bin ?

z0mbi3 · 13 Dec 2008 at 16:48

tophee said:
put the file in /usr/bin ?

That or try specifying the full path to the file in the command.

J.B · 13 Dec 2008 at 17:46

I tried that, says I dont have permission because the owner is root, I dont know much about the ins and outs of Ubuntu but Im guessing thats the systems way of protecting the files,

I copied niswrapper file into the folder on the desktop where the drivers are and ran it from there in the command line. I think it installed. I was hoping it would be easier than this!

Thanks for the help guys, I'll try again tomorrow.

Atrox Moris · 13 Dec 2008 at 17:57

Stick sudo infront of the command.