ndiswrapper: *.inf not recognised ...

[asearle]

I am running Knoppix 3.6 on a Dell latitude and am trying to get wireless networking running with either one of two cards:

A DLink DWL-650+ and/or an EDIMAX EW-7106PC

Neither of these cards was recognised by Knoppix so I decided to try with NDISwrapper. For this I did the following ...

1. I unzipped the windows drivers to a mounted drive
2. I started NDISWrapper and located/selected the *.inf files
3. I got the following error message ...

ERROR: The selected file is no *.inf file or the *.inf file is invalid, exiting.

... for both of the adaptors.

Can anyone help me with this? Is the message normal? Or should I be handling the files differenctly in some way? Or are both these adaptors not supported?

Any tips or pointers to good 'HOWTOs' would be very gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Alan Searle.

[pureone]

this has mainly only happen to me when the .inf files are .INF files for some reason ndiswrapper dont like that.

other then that could be the wrong drivers.

[monkeyking]

try doing it by a console.
you know.

ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver.inf

remember to reboot (That is be root)
I\ve had the same issue, a couple of times with my usb flash.
good luck