Ndiswrapper and Fedora Core 6

by Pascal Opitz

published 18 January 2007

For me, the key to get this working is to NOT attempt to create the ath0 Interface, but using ethX as interface instead.

1) First I updated the whole system to use the latest rpm’s 

sudo yum update

2) I set up my yum to use the livna rpms 

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

3) I installed ndiswrapper using YUM: 

sudo yum install ndiswrapper

4) I edited my modprobe.conf adding the following lines: 

options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1
alias eth1 ndiswrapper

5) I restarted

6) I downloaded the XP drivers for the card and unzipped the file, then loaded the driver into ndiswrapper: 

sudo ndsiwrapper -i WinXP/GPLUS.inf

7) Finally I executed the modprobe command to load ndsiwrapper as driver: 

sudo modprobe ndsiwrapper


And finally I was able to go to the network administration panel in GNOME and change the settings for the card like for any other network interface.

Comment

  1. Hello,

    I try your method on a Acer Aspire 3050 with wirless card Broadcom BCM4318 with Fedora Core 6 and can’t connect at my wireless router. This is the error:

    SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
    Failed to bring up eth1.

    after configure eth1 with Network device control.
    If you have any ideea please help me !!!

    Lucian
    — Lucian    12 February, 7:48am    #

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