I have just installed 1.0rc1 on two pooters: IBM Thinkpad T20 with a Linksys WPC11 ver4 card. A standard pc with an Edimax EW-7126 card.
Both cards are using the same drivers, the ones that came on the Edimax CD (NETR8180.INF & rtl8180.sys).
Both return the same message with running "ndiswrapper -i NETR8180.INF - "n hardware NOT present" then the next line "netr8180 hardware present"
On both pooters the cards are working fine.
Just a comment that might be helpful to others.Perhaps you mistyped, even if the install doesn't find the .inf file it adds it to the list. For example:
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ndiswrapper -i /etc/fubar.inf
Followed by
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ndiswrapper -l
will list fubar as hardware not found (sortof weird)
Just use ndiswrapper -e fubar to get it off the list