Getting belkin wireless card to work with ndiswrapper

[Bob Goodwin]

Chris Norman wrote:
> I have a question reguarding the ndiswrapper, I have a belkin wireless 
> card which doesn't work with Fedora, how would i get ndiswrapper to 
> run the windows drivers? I believe that's what ndiswrapper does, 
> although I didn't understand what I was reading on the net.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Chris Norman

I've been trying to work with the information here, at least the
 parts that appear to be appropriate for my situation.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation

I installed ndiswrapper with yum ...  Used the Windows driver from
the Linksys CD ... But a problem remains.  That's as far as I got today.

Bob Goodwin
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Goodwin" 
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> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:21 PM
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>> I am having a problem getting ndiswrapper to work in this FC5 computer.
>>
>> uname -a
>> Linux box7 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 #1 Mon Sep 11 01:17:06 EDT 2006 i686 
>> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Shows the kernel as 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.
>>
>> and the module I downloaded via yumex
>>
>> ll /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2187_FC5/updates/ndiswrapper.ko
>>
>> However it doesn't work
>>
>> modprobe ndiswrapper
>>
>> FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper 
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2187_FC5/updates/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid 
>> module format
>>
>> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> Bob Goodwin
>>
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