Ndiswrapper and Fedora Core 6

For me, the key to get this working is to NOT attempt to create the ath0 Interface, but using ethX as interface instead.

1) First I updated the whole system to use the latest rpm’s

sudo yum update

2) I set up my yum to use the livna rpms

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm

3) I installed ndiswrapper using YUM:

sudo yum install ndiswrapper

4) I edited my modprobe.conf adding the following lines:

options ndiswrapper if_name=eth1
alias eth1 ndiswrapper

5) I restarted

6) I downloaded the XP drivers for the card and unzipped the file, then loaded the driver into ndiswrapper:

sudo ndsiwrapper -i WinXP/GPLUS.inf

7) Finally I executed the modprobe command to load ndsiwrapper as driver:

sudo modprobe ndsiwrapper

And finally I was able to go to the network administration panel in GNOME and change the settings for the card like for any other network interface.