Public bug reported:
I bought an eMachine 5230 with a AMD64 mobo (nvidia) and wanted a 64 bit
opsys other than Vist. I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 64bit and installed it.
Learned about ndiswrapper and installed it with apt-get. It worked great
but the only wifi drivers I could find for my USB network cards is 32bit
only with no possible chance of 64bit drivers.
So I download Ubuntu 8.04 32bit and made a fresh install. Went to the
package manager looking to install ndiswrapper, but it could not be
found. It was found Ok in the 64bit Ubuntu but not in the 32bit version
of Ubuntu 8.04. So I tried it at the system level using apt-get. That
all seemed to work with the modprobe and all, but when I tried
'ndsiwrapper -l' I get an error msg stating that there are no utilities
for ndiswrapper. I checked the log files and they indicated that
ndiswrapper was installed at boot time, but still can't use the
'ndiswrapper' command for anything.
I am at a loss as a Ubuntu newbie. I also find it difficult to follow
instructions to get online and check this and that when I can't get a
network up and running. (Only a Vista driver for the internal network
card. Bummer!)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ndiswrapper in ubuntu hardy 8.04 64bit works but ubuntu hardy 8.04 32bit won't
even load.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231231
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