Quick Ubuntu Install Question

davestar_delux · 9 Oct 2008 at 00:31

Hey I went to install Ubuntu there and it came to the partitioning bit and asked me whethere I wanted two options

Guided - use entire disk

or

Manual

I tried manual as I want to keep my Vista install for now but it was showing up 4 partitions, 2 NTFS, 1 fat 32 and 1 fat something else. I don't know what to do at this stage.

davestar_delux · 9 Oct 2008 at 01:06

If I use the Ubuntu installer to shrink the NTFS partition I have Vista on it wont lose me any data? I try to shrink it in Vista but it becomes unresponsive (possibly due to a couple of bad sectors on the disk).

davestar_delux · 9 Oct 2008 at 02:44

Thanks for your help Billy, I have just put it on the free space for now. Next step getting wireless Internet working.

davestar_delux · 9 Oct 2008 at 15:37

I've done lspci and the network controller is:

Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01).

davestar_delux · 9 Oct 2008 at 23:36

I've googled about and think this is what I'm going to do -

First disable the current driver, which won't work with this card :

echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Then install ndiswrapper:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils

Then insert my Windows driver:

sudo ndiswrapper -i windows_driver_INF_file

Verify that it worked :

sudo ndiswrapper -l

Then configure ndiswrapper :

sudo ndiswrapper -m

Verify everything went well :

dmesg | tail

davestar_delux · 10 Oct 2008 at 01:15

ndiswrapper-utils couldn't be found. And I have no wired Internet connection on that comp so is there a way I can download this on Windows and put it on a pendrive?

davestar_delux · 10 Oct 2008 at 02:58

davestar_delux said:
1. echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
2. sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
3. sudo ndiswrapper -i windows_driver_INF_file
4. sudo ndiswrapper -l
5. sudo ndiswrapper -m
6. dmesg | tail

Okay, done the above, first 4 steps went fine.

Step 5 it says: module config already contains alias directive.

davestar_delux · 10 Oct 2008 at 16:26

BillytheImpaler said:
My guess is that ndiswrapper has already put a module in the kernel which you need to remove. I'll be more helpful in the morning when I won't be quite so full of cheer and 18-year-old Scotch whisky.

Appreciated. How do I go about removing that?

I googled about a bit and tried this

sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

changed nothing lol.