Windows drivers wokring in linux

[quackerww]

How do i go about getting windows drivers to work in linux? Is it even possable?

 

[rmrf]

why would you want to? linux has most everything you need compiled already, besides nvidia or ati drivers, which are packaged for linux.

 

[quackerww]

I have a d-link wirless card and there is no linux driver for it and it is my only way to get online..... any ideias?

 

[JasonE4]

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

You can use the windows drivers if you use ndiswrapper. I've only tried to use it once and I couldn't get it to work, but it's pretty much the only option and I've heard of a good deal of success with it.

 

[quackerww]

Thanks maby its a bad ideia to install linux lol.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Which linux distro did you install? That's one of your mistakes, for newbies like you get an easy distro that has superior driver detection like Mepis.

Btw, it also depends what d-link card you have. I think there's like four different chipsets for the 54g version of their pci card. So it'll be very handy to find that out.

 

[quackerww]

ill download mepis, it is a dwl-g520m card...

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: quackerww
How do i go about getting windows drivers to work in linux? Is it even possable?

Let me give you a piece of advice from someone who suffered from the wows of WiFi on Linux at the beginning of the road in Linux land, don't get a random card and expect it to work under Linux, wireless card manufacturers aren't releasing crucial info concerning the chips that run the cards which is making it harder for Linux developers to write drivers, except for Intel and RALink, get yourself an Intel mini-PCI card, it took me 3 minutes to get WiFi running on Fedora Core 4 running on my trusty Thinkpad R50e with a 2200BG Intel mini-PCI card. Intel has a funded project tio release drivers for Linux and that's why it just works.

 

[Nothinman]

Thanks maby its a bad ideia to install linux lol.

Not at all. But it was probably a bad idea to buy that wifi card.