How to install Windows Wireless Drivers using Ndiswrapper

• Find out if you have acx module loaded. Because acx module interferes with windows driver, we need to remove it if it is found.

lsmod | grep acx

• Remove the acx module if found. It could also be acx_pci or similar. Please Note: New kernel updates will auto load the acx module again. So repeat the following two commands every time the kernel is updated.

sudo rmmod acx
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

• Add a new list at the end of the file like this:

# drivers wireless ACX
blacklist acx

• Install ndiswrapper and drivers (due to a bug in Edgy, you need to specify ndiswrapper-utils-1.8)

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8
sudo ndiswrapper -i /location_of_your_wireless_driver/your_driver.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -l
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

• Set ndiswrapper to load on startup

sudo ndiswrapper -m
gksudo gedit /etc/modules

• Add the following module to the list

ndiswrapper

• Now you can configure your wireless card with ifconfig and iwconfig.

e.g. Supposing wlan0 is your wireless device.

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "AP" key ababababababababab mode Managed
iwconfig

• You sould now be able to see the MAC address of the access point and signal rate.