HowTo ?: Remove current wireless card drivers and use ndiswrapper

What windows does is of zero value, its a different OS with different support.

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

Thanks

gunnar@ferdavel:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for gunnar:
  *-network:0
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:c0:9f:2f:e4:de
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=10.1.31.143 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:20 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:d2007800-d20078ff
  *-network:1
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32
       resources: irq:21 memory:d2004000-d2005fff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:90:4b:52:05:d2
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

ok then you need to blacklist the wireless driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

Then you can use ndisgtk + windows driver (Make sure you use 64bit driver if your OS is 64bit and 32bit driver for 32bit OS)

How do I do that? What is the name of the driver?: b43legacy or cfg80211 or b43-pci-bridge
sudo modprobe -r NameOfTheDriver
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Add this line to the end of the file "blacklist NameOfTheDriver"
gunnar@ferdavel:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 6587 1
pcmcia 30784 0
snd_intel8x0 25588 2
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70694 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26722 0
arc4 1153 2
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
nls_utf8 1069 0
clip 9438 1
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
cifs 248735 0
joydev 8708 0
atm 35745 3 clip
b43legacy 115152 0
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
nvidia 7087672 36
fbcon 35102 71
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon
font 7557 1 fbcon
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
cb710_mmc 6007 0
mac80211 205402 1 b43legacy
snd 54180 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
yenta_socket 20408 1
vga16fb 11385 1
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
psmouse 63245 0
intel_agp 24119 1
cfg80211 126528 2 b43legacy,mac80211
led_class 2864 1 b43legacy
rsrc_nonstatic 10015 1 yenta_socket
cb710 4885 1 cb710_mmc
pcmcia_core 32964 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
serio_raw 3978 0
agpgart 31724 2 nvidia,intel_agp
soundcore 6620 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7076 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp 28820 0
ppdev 5259 0

parport_pc 25962 1
irda 186556 0
crc_ccitt 1339 1 irda
video 17375 0
output 1871 1 video
lp 7060 0
parport 32635 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
usbhid 36110 0
hid 67032 1 usbhid
ohci1394 26950 0
8139too 18545 0
ssb 38902 1 b43legacy
ieee1394 81181 1 ohci1394
8139cp 16186 0
mii 4381 2 8139too,8139cp

gunnar@ferdavel:~$ sudo modprobe -r b43-pci-bridge
[sudo] password for gunnar:
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module b43_pci_bridge not found.

You should run:

sudo mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

You need to blacklist b43legacy, my bad. Files in /etc/modprobe.d MUST end in .conf

I left blacklist.local untouched but added "blacklist b43legacy" to the blacklist.conf. I tryed to follow instructions acc. to this link.:http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201902&page=61. I placed following drivers on ~/drivers/bcmwl5.ini and -.sys. Bcmwl5.ini I downloaded from http://www.infdump.com/inffiles/B/bcmwl5.inf. I installed bcmwl5.ini threw graphical interface ndisgtk. But never the less no luck. Any chance you could help me?

when I do sudo lshw -C network
  *-network:1
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32
       resources: irq:21 memory:d2004000-d2005fff

It seems that b43-pci-bridge driver is still assigned to the network controller, but when I run the lsmod the name b43-pci-bridge dos not appear. How do I proceed?

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