ndiswrapper, wireless driver and 64 bit kernel

[Freddy Freeloader]

Hi All

I'm running a combination of etch and sid on an HP Pavilion dv8000z that 
runs the AMD Turion.  I'm running 32 bit Debian with the 64 bit kernel 
that is released with sarge, etch, and sid.

I've been trying to get my wireless going and having problems getting it 
up and running. The laptop has the Broadcom wireless card and lspci 
reports it as a bcm4318. I ran ndiswrapper and it ran successfully.  
ndiswrapper -l lists the driver and says the driver and hardware are 
present.  However when I went to run modprobe ndiswrapper it reported a 
fatal error: Module not found.

I located ndiswrapper.ko (It was with the 2.6.8-2 module that etch and 
sid both install as the ndiswrapper module), and added the directory to 
the PATH. Now when I run modprobe I'm getting the "invalid module 
format" error.

I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what is causing the problem. Is 
it because the ndiswrapper is from a different kernel, or does this 
error have anything to do with possible differences in compilers? How do 
I figure out which is the problem? I am not running a custom kernel 
other than it's a 64 bit kernel, rather than a 32 bit kernel.


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