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My router went down, so I have a temporary one installed right now that has no Wifi. I decided to pick up a USB Wifi dongle, and I want to use my Ubuntu server as the bridge. I have the driver installed, and was following the guide for setting up NDISWrapper on the Ubuntu Community manual. When I run ndiswrapper -l:

rt2870 : driver installed
    device (0846:9012) present

... So I assume that it is installed. I then run depmod -a and get no output (assuming it works correctly), and then modprobe ndiswrapper... But that returns FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

This error seems weird to me, but I'll bite. I google the issue further, and find some people telling me to install 1.58 from the NDISWrapper website on Sourceforge. I try to run make in the extracted folder, but get this error:

Makefile:41: *** Please run 'make modules_prepare' in /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-17.  Stop.

Still not working! But why did the previous ndiswrapper commands work? The output of ndiswrapper -v shows that it's (mostly) installed:

ERROR: Module ndiswrapper not found.
module version is too old!
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '0'
module details:
ERROR: Module ndiswrapper not found.

You may need to upgrade driver and/or utils to latest versions available at
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

This is getting very irritating, but I don't know where to go from here. When I run uname -r, I get 3.5.0-23-generic, if that helps any (a lot of scripts are asking for it)

Jorge Castro
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Canadian Luke
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Seems like ndiswrapper needs some preparation on the kernel headers to be able to use them. Execute the following in a terminal:

cd /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-17

sudo make modules_prepare

After this, compile the ndiswrapper 1.58 module.

grimpitch
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