Problem installing Windows wireless drivers with ndiswrapper

[PatH57]

did you already try a newer kernel?
it's pretty easy and also does fix issues with drivers.

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uname -a

[Greenpalmer]

I've just had a look at how to update the kernel and it looks very complicated

[PatH57]

what's your kernel?

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uname -a

and you can always boot back to the old one, nothing broken.

[Greenpalmer]

The kernel is Linux LAPTOP2 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:08:14 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux.

Are you sure it's easy to update the kernel? What do I need to do?

[PatH57]

I use 3 kernels 3.13.11 3.14.12 and 3.15.6 (boot either one or the other depending what I want to try)

We will stay within the 3.13 so we are nearly a 100% it won't break anything else (going from 3.13.x to 3.13.y fixes things but doesn't bring in new "things")
you will have another entry in grub for each kernel so you can choose the older kernel at boot in case, never had to do it on any kernel except when changing 3.13 to 3.14 to reinstall my graphic card but even this went real easy.

Let's download the needed packages.

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wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13.11.5-trusty/linux-headers-3.13.11-03131105_3.13.11-03131105.201407181735_all.deb

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wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13.11.5-trusty/linux-headers-3.13.11-03131105-generic_3.13.11-03131105.201407181735_amd64.deb

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wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13.11.5-trusty/linux-image-3.13.11-03131105-generic_3.13.11-03131105.201407181735_amd64.deb

Now we install the kernel

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sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.13.11*.deb linux-image-3.13.11*.deb

Reboot.

Try

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uname -a

to check if the new kernel is ok. Voila

[Greenpalmer]

Thanks PatH57 - I'll give this a try tomorrow

[Greenpalmer]

Hi again,

I installed the newer kernel successfully as per your instructions (I changed amd64 to i386) and everything that worked fine before still works fine. Unfortunately it has made no difference to either being able to install the windows wireless driver or the new Broadcom driver.

I may try other kernels in the future but I think for now I have to stay with Mint 13 Maya.

Anyway thanks PatH57 for extending my Linux knowledge - I can now update kernels with confidence.

[PatH57]

sorry it didn't help but keep an eye on the kernel changes within your 3.13 range
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/