bettyfan1

I am somewhat new to Linux and really new to SUSE. I bought a Netgear wireless card WG311v3 and installed it in my father inlaws computer to allow him to access the internet from his office. Unfortunately, I have yet to get it working. I loaded the ndiswrapper from cd 1 of SUSE and then proceeded to load the driver from the internet. I followed step by step instructions from the Novell site and from any other site that had solutions. I have been working on this for a week now and have even consulted with my instructor. Still no luck. Latest problem is when after I unzip the driver and type ndiswrapper -i /tmp/driver/WG311v3.INF it says it is installed and then I type ndiswrapper -l and it gives me the error fatal error inserting ndiswrapper /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-default/updates/ndiswrapper.ko:Invalid argument. Where do I go from here. Be gentle I am a IT student and am a newbie with Linux

Oh and I did an upgrade

I did download SUSE Linux for 64 bit. I also downloaded the ndiswrapper 1.48. Which is supposed to have gotten rid of the 64 bit glitches. Here is a screen capture from my terminal window of what I am receiving linux-925j:/home/resims/Desktop # ndiswrapper -l installed drivers: wg311v3 invalid driver! utils version: 1.9 driver version: 1.48 vermagic: 2.6.18.2-34-default SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-x86_64.iso Does this help? This stuff is driving me crazy. Why do they make it so difficult? Is there any other card you can recommend that might be easier to install?

I loaded the drivers from the Netgear site. Since that did not work I loaded the ones from the cd that came with the card. It still did not work. I then upgraded my SUSE 10.1 to SUSE 10.2 and downloaded ndiswrapper again using YAST2 and then tried the same commands of ndiswrapper -i WG311v3.INF and it says it is an invalid driver. I am at roots ends on this thing. Any more suggestions that might work? My instructor found another driver for the wireless card that was a driver NET311 that was on a linux site claiming to be an updated driver. It didn't work either. I am about to go get another card. I also have another question...could it be the fact that I am running a 64 bit processor?

Has anyone tried this on SUSE? I am having the same problem, but it does not use debian. Any ideas?