Ubuntu
ndiswrapper package

  1. Bug #49820
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 49820

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote : ndiswrapper-utils package should be installed by default

I think this bug is a duplicate of bug #38081
Btw, In Ubuntu Live and install CD's and in default installation Ubuntu should include not only ndiswrapper-utils package, but also info from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation and http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List, I think. Without this info users, who have only ndiswrapper supported network cards, can't connect to internet, even advanced linux users can't :(

Best decision would be to include some user-friendly wizard to install drivers for network cards, which doesn't have open source drivers in ubuntu, but works through ndiswrapper and closed-source drivers for Windows. There is ndisgtk package in Ubuntu, maybe it should be included as default in Ubuntu main repository and install/Live CD's?