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Hey guys, I need help installing the driver for the Linksys WUSB54GV2 driver. I have ndiswrapper-common and utils 1.9 installed, but I was wondering, do I need ndiswrapper-1.51?

ndiswrapper -v gives: ver 1.28
ndiswrapper -l gives: wusb54gv2 invalid driver!
ndiswrapper -e wusb54gv2 goes through
once i've done that, it states no drivers present.

debian:/home/david# ndiswrapper -i wusb54gv2.inf
installing wusb54gv2 ...
couldn't open wusb54gv2.inf: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-1.9 line 167.

what else do i need to do? i have the .inf and .sys files on a flash drive

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WUSB54gv2 is invalid driver

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2008-01-30 22:05.

I recently had success with ndiswrapper under Etch. The steps were:

  1. Install ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils (1.9), and ndsiwrapper-source (1.51)
  2. module-assistant prepare
  3. module-assistant build ndiswrapper
  4. module-assistant install ndiswrapper
  5. depmod -a
  6. modprobe ndiswrapper
  7. Obtain the windows XP driver from CD. For me, that meant installing to a windows XP computer and finding the .inf and .sys files. The Vista drivers did not work.
  8. ndiswrapper -i net8187b.inf
  9. ndiswrapper -m
  10. modprobe ndiswrapper
  11. Edit /etc/network/interfaces to read: auto wlan0
    iface wlan0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.9
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    network 192.168.1.0
    broadcast 192.168.1.255
    gateway 192.168.1.1
    # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
    dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1
    wireless-key open XXXXXXXXXX
    wireless-essid XXXXX
  12. /etc/init.d/networking restart

I also found out that ndiswrapper works with kernel 2.6.18, but not with 2.6.22. Maybe some of this info is helpful to your situation.

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how do i load them properly?

Submitted by dmbruley on Thu, 2008-01-31 13:47.

But how do I make sure the driver is loaded correctly? I have three sources with the needed files (been trying for a while): the Linksys CD (cdrom0), burned CD, and also USB

How do I "obtain" the files from CD? Do I enter the location of the files in the terminal? What? I'm just lost. Or am I just supposed to to it just like you said?

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how do i load them properly?

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2008-01-31 20:21.

The files might be located somewhere on the CD. In my case, that was only the case for the Vista drivers. The XP drivers were only created after installing the drivers on an XP computer. So I had to go into the installation directory on the windows XP machine and copy them over to my Debian machine before the "ndiswrapper -i driver.inf" command.

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how do i load them properly?

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2008-02-01 17:00.

I read your original post again. You have to copy the files to whichever directory you are installing them from (/home/david in your post). Otherwise, specify the full path to the files in the ndiswrapper -i command.

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