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Processor | Intel i7-3770k |
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Motherboard | ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 |
Cooling | Hyper 212 Evo |
Memory | Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 |
Video Card(s) | Gigabyte GTX 770 |
Storage | Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB |
Display(s) | Acer G264HL |
Case | Cooler Master CM 690 III |
Power Supply | Corsair CX600M |
Mouse | Logitech G400 |
Software | Linux for computing, Windows 7 for gaming |
So I decided to switch from Windows to GNU/Linux after seeing Valve's newest article regarding their Linux platform. I backed up all my important files from Windows and successfully installed Mint without any (at the time) problems. My PC was connected to the internet with a Linksys WUSB54G V4 wireless adapter and worked fine on Windows 7 with a hacked driver, but is having issues inside Mint. This is how I tried to get my internet working:
Added
to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Move r2500usb.inf and rt2500.sys to Home
In Terminal:
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The last command is what gives me a problem, it says the module (ndiswrapper) is missing.
Returns:
So I'm pretty damn sure it's missing, but I did these to ensure:
Returns:
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Returns:
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Returns:
I know the easiest way to install ndiswrapper is through whatever you installed from, but I formatted it. I'm also not able to plug my PC in directly.
TL;DR: I need to install ndiswrapper without an internet connection and without the original flash drive. I've read somewhere about installing a .deb but heard it can lead to problems.
Added
Code:
blacklist rt2570
blacklist rt2500
blacklist prism54usb
blacklist rt2x00lib
blacklist rt2x00usb
Move r2500usb.inf and rt2500.sys to Home
In Terminal:
Code:
sudo ndiswrapper -i rt2500usb.inf
ndiswrapper -l
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper[CODE]
The last command is what gives me a problem, it says the module (ndiswrapper) is missing.
Code:
ndiswrapper -v
Code:
ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper
module version is too old!
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '0'
module details:
ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper
You may need to upgrade driver and/or utils to latest versions available at
[url]http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net[/url]
So I'm pretty damn sure it's missing, but I did these to ensure:
Code:
sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper
Code:
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.[CODE]
Code:
sudo apt-get --purge remove ndiswrapper-utils
Code:
sudo apt-get --purge remove ndiswrapper-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Virtual packages like 'ndiswrapper-utils' can't be removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 103 not upgraded.
Code:
sudo rm -r /etc/ndiswrapper/
Code:
Nothing.
Code:
sudo rm -r /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
Code:
rm: cannot remove `/etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper': No such file or directory
Code:
sudo rm /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
Code:
rm: cannot remove `/lib/modules/3.2.0-23-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko': No such file or directory
I know the easiest way to install ndiswrapper is through whatever you installed from, but I formatted it. I'm also not able to plug my PC in directly.
TL;DR: I need to install ndiswrapper without an internet connection and without the original flash drive. I've read somewhere about installing a .deb but heard it can lead to problems.