How am I suppose to install the the ndisgtk package if I have no internet connection?

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So I am new to ubuntu, but I am fairly experienced at how to do things, so please explain yourself throughly.

I installed ubuntu 10.10 a few days ago, but I can't do anything on it because I can't get my router hooked up! I looked in the ubuntu documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/internet/C/troubleshooting-wireless.) and found a link to install windows drivers called the ndisgtk package. Though it seems as though ubuntu derped because I can't install stuff without having an internet connection.

I have installed ubuntu on another computer that I have internet access to, I downloaded ndisgtk on that one and the .inf file worked (that I painstakeingly tried to find out how to get from the hardware untill somewhere told me it was on the disk). I tried finding ndisgtk on the hard drive after I installed it, I can't seem to find it (help?).

I also think its stupid you can't download ndisgtk on windows. I would be able to put it on a flash drive and have it over to ubuntu in no time!

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Emre AYTAÇ (eaytac) said :
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Open Synaptic Package Manager in the machine (which hasn't got internet connection). Search for the ndisgtk package. Mark it for install, accept the query releated with other packages. Then go to "File" menu, select "Generate Package Download Script". Give a name(for example, ndis-down) to the script, and save it to your usb disk. In the other machine, which has got an internet connection, download the packages to your usb disk:

via script;
Open terminal go to script's directory, than type this command;
sh ndis-down

without script;
Open the script with text editor, then download the files with a browser, or wget, however you want.

Then go back to your connectionless machine, open a terminal, and go to the download package's directory. And install all of them:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Hope this helps....

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said :
#2

O_o I think I can figure this out, but can you clarify what you mean by "accept the query releated with other packages." I have tried to install ndisgtk on the computer without internet, it asks me to authenticate it (type in password), then the authentifacation window just sits there untill I click x or cancel, the install window then shows the one active download thing circling for a moment then nothing (as if I was about to install it).

Also can you tell me where ndisgtk installs? I don't know.

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bcbc (bcbc) said :
#3

You can also install using the CD/USB you installed from.

e.g. load the Ubuntu CD. Assuming it mounts under /media/cdrom.
Run the following commands from the terminal (CTRL+ALT+t):
sudo dpkg -i /media/cdrom/pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/*.deb
sudo dpkg -i /media/cdrom/pool/main/n/ndisgtk/*.deb

First command installs ndiswrapper common and utils. Second installs ndisgtk. Then go to System, Administration, Windows Wireless Drivers, and select your XP driver .INF file.

You can also navigate through the browser (nautilus) to the packages if you prefer to do it in gui, and double click on each package to install.

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said :
#4

Thank you very much! Where do I tell Ubuntu that they derped?

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Leo (leillo1975) said :
#5

bcbc, I do all the things that you write in your post and I can´t see in network manager my wireless network and my adapter.

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Tom (tom6) said :
#6

Hi Leo
Please post your question as a new question
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
So that your question can be handled properly (hopefully). It might be worth givein a link back into this thread
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndisgtk/+question/147461
So that you can keep your question brief and still allow people to see what has happened so far. It might be good if you could post the url of your new question into this thread so that the 2 or 3 of subscribed to this thread see your new question faster.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said :
#7

Leo again :)
Do you still have an Ubuntu Cd/Usb? Can you run a LiveCd/Usb session to see the Network manager in there? Do you need to re-install NM to your proper install of Ubuntu?
Regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said :
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