installhelper.dll

[OrionRising]

Hi, all.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, and trying to install the Windows wifi driver for my onboard wifi, as there is no Linux driver for it. I've tried using NDISWrapper, but as far as I can tell, the necessary file doesn't exist. So, I'm trying to install the Windows driver directly, using Wine.

However, when I try to run the .exe file, I get the following error message (I had to copy from a screen shot, so there may be typos):

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Unable to load
C:\windows\temp\{164E09A4-735A-11DD-1194-001FC60B674E}\{295941F1-484E-4C23-B43C-7EFDC3E6DF43}\InstallHelper.dll.

Is there any way to put an appropriate file in place, or to get around this problem?

[dimesio]

Hi, all.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, and trying to install the Windows wifi driver for my onboard wifi, as there is no Linux driver for it. I've tried using NDISWrapper, but as far as I can tell, the necessary file doesn't exist. So, I'm trying to install the Windows driver directly, using Wine.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8021e00 ... 621b9d9366

[OrionRising]

Oh, right. Thanks for pointing that out.

So, is there no way to get it to work in super-user mode?

[jeffz]

Oh, right. Thanks for pointing that out.

So, is there no way to get it to work in super-user mode?

doing sudo will only break things if you use it at the wrong time.

You could look at ndiswrapper.

[vitamin]

Oh, right. Thanks for pointing that out.

So, is there no way to get it to work in super-user mode?

No, Wine does not support any hardware device drivers.

[OrionRising]

Thanks for your replies. I guess I'll have to focus on trying ndiswrapper. Either that, or buy a usb wifi device which does have linux drivers. It's not as if I could use the other features of my motherboard, anyway.