Ndiswrapper broken with 8.10 Intrepid

[Yeuclid]

I upgraded to the 8.10 release, which appeared to go fairly smoothly, apart from not updating GRUB to load latest 2.26.7 kernel, which caused a few problems.

After correcting that I tried to establish a network connection with my Linksys PCI card, which worked on 8.04 and below with Ndiswrapper, but it fails with a Fatal modprobe error. I then tried to install the latest version of Ndiswrapper, but the make fails as it is unable to find the ndiswrapper.ko file.

I then used an old Prism USB adapter which is recognised automatically and it worked perfectly, so networking is OK

Ndiswrapper appears to have some major incompatibilities with 8.10

[Jeffrey Theobald (jeffrey-theobald)]

I also had this problem and in the end gave up, because upgrading to Intrepid killed my sound, wireless network and graphics drivers and I spent hours trying to fix them.

I ended up re-installing the entire thing fresh and found that ndiswrapper worked more smoothly than it ever has before. Clearly something is going very wrong in the upgrade process.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.04), this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 295601, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

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