Mswindows legacy drivers on linux

Install an MsWindows driver on linux.

General linux has drivers for everything know to man, but because of propritary interference or hardware is not used anymore, you may still be able to get it working. Had some old wifi cards in the closet that I wanted to use for a Honeypot server. Linux did not have the drivers, but it did see the hards in hardware listings. I download the MSWindows driver and in minutes the card was usuable.

Set up a legacy mswindows wifi card in linux..(Make sure your card was installed properly while the machine was off.)
Download and extract the mswindows drivers for the card
Unzip the files to a local directory
$ unzip aw*
Fw1130.bin FwRad17.bin radio17.bin TNET1130.INF
FwRad16.bin radio16.bin tnet1130.cat tnet1130.sys
Install the interfacing software.
$ sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 install ndiswrapper-dkms
To see if your card is tetected.
$ lspci
…
00:0b.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
…
$ sudo modprobe  ndiswrapper
…
wlan1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DORMANT qlen 1000
…
Install wifi card driver (driver will usually be a .INF file
$ sudo ndiswrapper -i TNET1130.INF
$ ndiswrapper -l
tnet1130 : driver installed
device (104C:9066) present
Set ip ip for the card
$ ip addr
…
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
…
Check the current config of your card.
$ iwconfig
wlan1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:10 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
From here you should be able to configure your card.

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