Public bug reported:
Presently, Windows Vista family drivers (which use NDIS version 6) are
not supported by Ubuntu using the ndiswrapper software. The particular
WiFi solution that I have has a buggy native Linux driver, and, as far
as I can tell, no pre-Vista drivers at all (this card is OEM for HP
workstations).
Information on the card itself, though not directly relevant, can be
found in bug 104382 if needed.
In any case, when an attempt is made to install the Vista driver,
ndiswrapper complains of unknown symbols. The driver is an NDIS 6
driver, which is unsupported at present. Without having a pre-Vista
driver available for this hardware, I am kind of stuck either running
Windows Vista or putting up with intermittent and horribly slow
functionality under Linux. While I would rather do the latter, the
current lack of functionality prevents me from doing a lot of things
(such as regularly scheduled rsync backups to my in-house server and
printing on the LAN). Of course, I can do these things if I move the
computer to an area with wires and use the wired connection.
I will be attaching the list of unknown symbols reported by ndiswrapper;
hopefully, they can be of some assistance in finding out how to make
them work.
** Affects: ndiswrapper (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Feature Request: Support NDIS 6 (Windows Vista family) WiFi drivers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105013
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