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NDISWRAPPER(8)							NDISWRAPPER(8)

NAME
       ndiswrapper  -  Linux kernel module and user space tool to load and run
       Windows XP drivers for wireless cards

SYNOPSIS
       ndiswrapper

DESCRIPTION
       ndiswrapper is two parts: user space tool that is used to install  Win‐
       dows  XP drivers and kernel module to load the Windows XP drivers. Both
       are called ndiswrapper.

ndiswrapper - tool
       The user space tool (/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper) is used whenever a new Win‐
       dows  XP	 driver	 is  to be installed. This program takes the following
       options:

       OPTIONS

       -i <inf file>
	      installs new Windows XP driver, where <inf file> is full path to
	      INF file for that driver.

       -l     lists the currently installed drivers.

       -e <driver>
	      removes an installed Windows XP driver named <driver>.

       -m     writes  an alias for wlan0 (default wireless device) into module
	      configuration file so that ndiswrapper kernel module  is	loaded
	      automatically when this interface is used.

ndiswrapper - kernel module
       The kernel module loads the installed Windows drivers and executes them
       so that the wireless cards can be used in Linux. The module  takes  the
       following options:

       OPTIONS

       if_name=<basename>
	      The  default  basename  for the interface is wlan%d, so that the
	      wireless cards will be configured as wlan0, wlan1,  ...  (%d  is
	      replaced	with  lowest  available number). You may use any other
	      basename or fixed name, such as eth%d, ndis2 etc.

       proc_uid=<uid>
	      The module creates files in /proc/net/ndiswrapper	 that  provide
	      some  useful  information.  These files are created so that they
	      can be read only by root by default. If some other user needs to
	      access these files without having to login as root, then replace
	      <uid> with the user ID of that user.

       proc_gid=<gid>
	      The module creates files in /proc/net/ndiswrapper	 that  provide
	      some  useful  information.  These files are created so that they
	      can be read only by people in root group by  default.  If	 users
	      from other groups need to access these files, then replace <gid>
	      with the group ID of those users.

	      ndiswrapper kernel module uses loadndisdriver user space tool to
	      load  all the Windows drivers. This tool is not to be used under
	      normal circumstances.  Only when ndiswrapper module  is  already
	      loaded  and a new Windows XP driver is installed (by ndiswrapper
	      user space tool) and you want the kernel	module	to  load  that
	      driver  without having to unload the module that you need to use
	      it.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by	Giridhar  Pemmasani  <ndiswrapper-gen‐
       eral@lists.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
       others).

				 June 25, 2004			NDISWRAPPER(8)
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