Provided by: ndiswrapper_1.60-6ubuntu0.2_amd64 
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 Windows 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 Windows 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-general@lists.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). June 25, 2004 NDISWRAPPER(8)