...i believe that ndiswrapper allows windows drivers to be used in Linux for wireless cards. This became necessary as various vendors (eg Broadcom) refuse to release the code to their hardware.
Dont quote me - but if your using a Debian distro you may be able to just 'apt-get' it.
for example
apt-get install ndiswrapper
running the above command may just install it for you. You will have to copy the .inf windows drivers to a directory on your linux box - then install them with ndiswrapper like this
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ndiswrapper -i filename.inf
This copies all necessary files to /etc/ndiswrapper and creates the config files for your card.
After installing you can run
ndiswrapper -l
to see the status of your installed drivers. If you have installed the correct driver you should see something like this
Installed ndis drivers
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
Where "present" means that you have a card that can be used with the driver installed. In this case, broadcom driver bcmwl5 is used.
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the above section was copied from
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...p/Installation
any problems drop me a line back
good luck
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