Warning given when ndiswrapper.conf is missing '.conf' in name

Bug #616022 reported by nUboon2Age
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Bug Description

Running Wifix results in WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.

This may be a case where Wifix is downloading an older driver (ie. a duplicate of lp bug #614869), since the latest ndiswrapper resolved this bug.

If not this is possibly a bug in ndiswrapper rather than Wifix itself (along lines of lp bug 340873) but Wifix uses ndiswrapper as almost a component to accomplish its work. If so we'd need to file a Wifix bug as well.

ndiswrapper changelog says:
Version 1.56 2010-02-10
* Use /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf, not /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper

nUboon2Age (nuboon2age)
summary: - Warning: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper instead of .../ndiswrapper.conf
+ Warning given when ndiswrapper.conf is missing '.conf' in name
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nUboon2Age (nuboon2age) wrote :

From linux-install-wifi:

The value of $CUR_VER is critical to getting the correct (latest) version of ndiswrapper. This section could contain the bug.

if [ $NDIS_FOUND -eq 0 ]; then
  NDIS_INFO=$(ndiswrapper -v | grep "^version:" | grep -o "[.0-9]*$")
  UPDATE=$(expr $NDIS_INFO '<' $CUR_VER)
  # if the version is new enough, don't compile
  [ $UPDATE -eq 0 ] && return
 fi

I manually ran ndiswrapper -v and get:
$ ndiswrapper -v
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '1.9' module details:
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/kernel/ubuntu/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
version: 1.55
vermagic: 2.6.32-22-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 586

However the latest which should have been the one downloaded is:
ndiswrapper-1.56.tar.gz 200.8 KB 2010-02-10 91,426

So this may confirm that bug #614869 (WiFix Linux installer script installs wrong version of NDISwrapper ) is still alive.

Bug #614869 wifish ( wifish ) - 2008-02-06 15:04:36 PST
had to have been addressed by one of the last revisions of Wifix that Blake Martin (wifish) did though the log does not explicitly list it. The log is here: http://wifix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wifix/trunk/wifix/src/?view=log

Rev. 95 made a critical change to the download line (220?) in linux-install-wifi:
progress-file "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-${CUR_VER}.tar.gz" "Retrieving NDISwrapper source code" "$ARCH"

nUboon2Age (nuboon2age)
Changed in wifix:
milestone: none → ver0.4
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