[TriLUG] Installing an ndiswrapper driver where a native one exists already?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I've almost done everything. Configured my Linksys WRT56GL access point. 
Configured my Linksys WUSB54G version 4 wireless access point on Mandriva 
2006, using ndiswrapper and the Windows driver. Wrote a script to reliably 
interface the WUSB54G with WEP. Enabled WPA (WPA personal) using 
wpa_supplicant. I even got the WUSB54G working on Mandriva 2007's native 
rt2500 driver (creates device rausb0).

I have one thing left. The native driver is junk, regularly freezing the 
computer. So I tried to to install the ndiswrapper, exactly like i did on 
Mandriva 2006, but it didn't work. I theorize it's because rausb0 remained 
installed. Indeed, even after I commented out rausb0/rt2500 out 
of /etc/modules.conf and /etc/iftab. In fact, when I installed the 
ndiswrapper version and did ifup wlan0, it reported that rausb0 was going up.

Does anyone know how to install the ndiswrapper version on a machine already 
having the native (I'm willing to delete the native). Once again, in this 
case, the ndiswrapper version is MUCH more stable than the native version.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
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