ndiswrapper trouble

I am trying to load the windows drivers for my toshiba laptop using ndiswrapper, however when I load the driver an error pops up saying "Unable to find the ndiswrapper interface!". I am using the control center wizard to set this up btw.

Any ideas?

*edit* I've followed this guys guide but I don't know the command to tell the device to obtain an ip automatically from dhcp

 

When does it give the error? When you try to add the new driver, or when you modprobe ndiswrapper?

 

I followed the guide above, but when I open 'wireless connection' in the control center it says 'you do not have any wireless interface. run the set up a new network interface assistant from the mandriva linux control center'.

I encountered No errors when I followed the guide, yet it seems linux doesn't recognize the wireless device?

also, when I use iwconfig the only devices that show up are lo, eth0, and sit0. Where's the wlan0 at? lol.

 

This could be to do with the possibility that your laptop has a button for enabling/disabling the wireless card. If it has such a button, try googling around for a driver to activate it. Otherwise, you have the same problem as me .

 

switch was the first thing I looked at lol. where's AT when you need him!

 

What chipset does the wireless card use?

 

Intel 3945ABG, which I found the appropriate .inf and .sys files from ndiswrapper driver page