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I have a USB wireless adapter that came with a CD with drivers on it. The drivers are for Windows XP. Upon googling, I learn about ndiswrapper and how to get the drivers up and running on my Linux box. So, I use ndiswrapper and follow a couple of guides. ndiswrapper -i thedriver.inf ndiswrapper -l (blah blah, everything's working ok. the driver is installed and the hardware is detected) ndiswrapper -m modprobe ndiswrapper no errors are returned on any of these. everything seems to be going fine until: iwconfig it returns eth0 and a local loopback and says to me that they aren't wireless. Upon rebooting and a couple of changes here and there in some config files, the problem still persists. Am I forgetting something? Did I mess something up without knowing about it? Every single guide that I read basically goes from "modprobe ndiswrapper" and then straight into setting up wlan0 for WEP/WPA access OR the guide just ends without getting into encryption. Not a single one that I've found has any troubleshooting on "what happens if wlan0 doesn't even show up?" So, that's why I thought I'd ask here. Thanks in advance.