Use Windows Wireless NIC Driver in Ubuntu
Ubuntu's "Help and Support" says "Ubuntu supports a system called NDISWrapper. It allows you to use the Windows Wireless Device Driver in Ubuntu ". 1. Prepare the Windows driver for the wireless network card. I use Windows XP. 2. First Use wired networks to install ndisgtk in the new software package manager. Www.2cto.com
Or download the three. deb files ndisgtk, ndiswrapper-common, and ndiswrapper-utils from the http://packages.ubuntu.com. Install the three software packages in the following sequence: Install ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils, and ndisgtk. 3. After ndisgtk is successfully installed, open "Windows Wireless Driver" in "System Management ". Click "install new driver ".
4. Select the. inf file in the Windows Driver of the wireless network adapter. Click "Install ". 5. A message may pop up saying "You cannot determine whether the hardware exists." click "OK ". 6. the driver for the wireless Nic is displayed in the "currently installed Windows drivers" list, and the "Hardware existence: yes" is displayed ". Click "close ". 7. The installation is complete. Click the network manager in the upper-right corner of the screen to find the wireless network.