Comments on: How To Configure Wireless on a MacBook Using Ndiswrapper

By: Deming

Deming — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:56:20 +0000

I really found the tutorial useful! I sat here and got it to work for the first time ever! Thank you very much for your help! Glad you posted this because the only thing stopping me from using Linux was I couldn’t get the wireless to work – it does now! Yay!

By: Flo

Flo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:57:31 +0000

Hey im new to all so bare with me, i installed everything and im connected and everything but i dont have any internet its driving me nuts i tried to reinstall the card drivers but that didnt help…
thanks!!

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:16:15 +0000

I am getting

net5416 : invalid driver

after i run the sudo ndiswrapper -l command. i have the same wireless card as you list as well. how can i forcibly remove the existing driver and start fresh with the lenovo driver? I am not real strong with ubuntu/linux but I am pretty good with instructions.

By: Steven B.

Steven B. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:38:23 +0000

Thank you so much!!

This was WONDERFUL!!! You just helped me finish the gap to Triple Booting my Macbook! (Now with OSX, Vista Ultimate, and now Ubuntu 7.10!)

When I choose ‘windows’ from the BootCamp loader, GRUB comes up… and thanks to you wonderful tutorial: Wireless, too!

I had to load ‘wine’ first, to handle the ‘updated’ driver pack from IBM. It now comes in a .exe file…. so…

> wine 7iwc28ww.exe

Now change to the directory where wine places the driver files:

> cd ~/.wine/drive_c/DRIVERS/WIN/WLLANATH/WINXP_2K

Now I could use the command to install the driver like you said:

> ndiswrapper -i NET5416.INF

Works like a champ now!

Steven (bigcheese overat guidedmouse.com)

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By: How to setup wireless on a macbook using madwifi : 7.10 “Gutsy” : Ubuntu Tutorials : Breezy - Dapper - Edgy - Feisty

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:56:38 +0000

[...] series not working with the madwifi drivers. You may remember a previous tutorial I wrote on Configuring Wireless using ndiswrapper. That tutorial is all fine and great if you don’t mind a little non-free running in your [...]

By: Benjy

Benjy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:57:16 +0000

Thanks a lot! Works like a charm
(Macbook 2gen refresh)
All I had to do was set authentication to tkip because “auto” did not work.

By: basetta

basetta — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:27:18 +0000

Hi,
I have the same stuff you have but when I try
sudo ndiswrapper -l
net5416 : invalid driver!

Have you any idea why ?

ciao ciao
P

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Tue, 08 May 2007 19:30:36 +0000

[...] installed for wireless on my MacBook. Some of you may remember my previous post about getting wireless to work under ndiswrapper, which has been working great so far, but I have been hoping for [...]

By: Adam Bolte

Adam Bolte — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:44:51 +0000

Some things to note:
- There is no 64-bit Windows driver for this chipset that can be used with ndiswrapper. That means, if you’re using the 64-bit Ubuntu (as I am), this method will not work.
- There is a madwifi driver now that works (even for 64-bit users), although encryption does not function making this somewhat useless for me.
- There older Macbook (non-C2D) works out-of-the-box (apparently)
- For Robert; the Atheros chipset on new MacBooks is actually a newer 802.11N-capable chipset still not fully supported by the madwifi project (but it doen’t look too far off).

I can live without internal wireless at home thanks to my spare Linksys 802.11G Wireless Ethernet Bridge, and the fact that I have a Ethernet cable on my desk at work.