Hello everyone. I've an Acer laptop with a Buffalo WLI-G54 PCMCIA card running on debian (kernel version 2.6.8-1-386). There's no linux driver available out there, so I try to use it with ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net).

To install my PCMCIA card, I follow all steps in the wiki installation (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki), and I have installed the ndiswrapper, first the v0.11 using apt, and then the version from CVS, doing a 'make install' (to remove the first one, I follow the wiki remove). My gcc version is 3.3.4. Once Ive ndiswrapper on my system, I load the .inf file (I get 3 warnings):

# ndiswrapper -i netcbg5m.inf

Installing netcbg5m
Warning: Cannot locate if MDRIVER
Warning: Cannot locate if MDRIVER
Warning: Cannot locate if MDRIVER

My ndiswrapper -l output:
Installed ndis drivers:
netcbg54 driver present, hardware present

Then if I 'modprobe ndiswrapper', Ive got no errors, until I take a look at dmesg:

# dmesg | tail -8
ndiswrapper version 0.11@041026 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:ZwOpenKey
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:ZwEnumerateKey
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:ZwClose
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: ntoskrnl.exe:ZwQueryValueKey
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:NdisRegisterProtocol
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:NdisOpenAdapter
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:NdisCloseAdapter
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:NdisRequest
ndiswrapper (import:235): Unknown symbol: NDIS.SYS:NdisDeregisterProtocol
ndiswrapper (load_driver:2001): unable to prepare driver 'netcbg54'

My question is, now what? I try many inf files, but no luck, the iwconfig doesn't show any wlan adapter...

Thanks for any help.

PS: I post at the ndiswrapper forum, but Ive no answer, so I post here now

Hey, Im finally able to use wireless under linux . All Ive to do is find another win driver for my chipset (BCM4306), I use the one that came from Dell (http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R76521na.EXE (use bcmwl5a.inf in directory AR), see http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/List for more information), and now works fine. Hope this help anyone!

Marc.