@peebee
Close but no cigar! The collage of windows in the screenshot, collage.png, are typical screens in a successful installation and invocation except for that at the bottom left which is intermittent.
collage.png
The post perdido referenced.
So, I tried the commands in the post perdido referenced.
Whereas the poster did not get any response from the ndiswrapper -l command, I did.
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# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwlhigh5 : driver installed
device (0846:9020) present
There were several instances of:
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pup_event_backend_modprobe' failed with exit code 1
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ndiswrapper: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
ndiswrapper: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
ndiswrapper: module license taints kernel.
ndiswrapper version 1.61 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
udevd[2876]: Specified group 'input' unknown
udevd[2876]: /etc/udev/rules.d/55-cups.rules:5: NAME="%k" is ignored, because it breaks kernel supplied names; please remove
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 2
usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
udevd[13878]: Process '/sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe' failed with exit code 1.
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# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
enp2s8 no wireless extensions.
You should find significant clues in the result.
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# ndiswrapper -v
/sbin/loadndisdriver: /sbin/loadndisdriver: cannot execute binary file
utils version is too old!
utils version '' is incompatible with utils version needed by driver ('1.9')!
utils version: '', utils version needed by module: '1.9'
module details:
filename: /lib/modules/4.9.96-lxpup-32-pae/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
version: 1.61
vermagic: 4.9.96-lxpup-32-pae SMP mod_unload modversions 686
You may need to upgrade driver and/or utils to latest versions available at
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net