Networking :: ndiswrapper stopped working

I had my WUSB54G v4 (rt2500.inf driver) working with ndiswapper a few days ago. I am new to linux and found my self every time i booted up reloading the driver and setting my IPs up again. Im sure i can learn to do this off a manual somewhere and it was not a big issue.

My problem at hand is ndiswrapper wont load my drivers and wont assgn my n/w card wlan0 anymore. Before my X starts the writing says something like cant load drivers from /mnt/hda1/rt2500usb.inf line 139 and suggests i reinstall them.

from a shell I ndiswapper -e rt2500usb ( for some reason its not rt2500usb.inf)and then i reload them. This doesnt work.

dmesg says my USB device 2 is not claimed by any active driver.

I dont see why it was working one day and not the other. The ony thing i think i maybe have done it clicked backup! maybe if i can stop ndiswrapper from booting up it might help, although i have tried using the live cd and it still wont work.

Also etc/ndiswapper/rt2500usb directory is empty.

Please help I will be online all night. Im from the UK thank you

Problem solved.

not sure about the legality of posting links here but if anybody needs the answer i can send them the link to a page that helped me. I belevie the problem initailly came about by my unplugging my n/w card whilst i was still in runlevel 5.

I'm glad you got your problem solved.

I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure it's legal to post links to anything, as long as you're not suggesting that people blow up buildings, start large-scale riots, teaching them how to watch DVDs, or that sort of thing.

If you meant whether or not it was acceptable DSL forum behavior, people do that all the time. At least, I do. I'm pretty sure its ok. It's also easy. No special tags or anything. The forum linkifies it automatically. Yes, linkify, that is the word I was looking for.

For example, here is a cool site that solves lots of DSL-related problems: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki

original here.