Wireless network - please help

I wonder if you can help me.
I am new to Linux and am trying to setup my wireless network card in Linux.
I have discovered that I can use a program on Linux (cannot remember the
name) that will use a Windows driver.

However, when I downloaded the driver for my wireless network card from the
website it was an .exe file.
I think the driver should be a .inf file.

My question is, how can I find out what .inf file on my Windows XP Pro
system is the driver file for my wireless network card?

For information I am using Belkin's Pre-N wireless network card.

I hope you can help me.

I appreciate any help or information given.

Thanks!

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:01:51 +0100, in alt.internet.wireless , "Neil
Hindry" <n_nospam_hindry@_nospam_hotmail.com> wrote:

(please don't post to multiple groups but set followups to one
specific one - other people might be interested in the answers in the
other groups you posted to). F'ups reset.

>However, when I downloaded the driver for my wireless network card from the
>website it was an .exe file.

Probably its a self-installing exe. Many windows drivers come packaged
like this. Try using one of the tools to let you peek inside MSI
files, such as "lesmsirables"

>I think the driver should be a .inf file.

The driver should be a bunch of DLLs and other executable code. The
inf is just a file that tells Windows how to install it. Typically
they're plaintext and contain stuff like this:

[version]
signature = "$Windows NT$"
Class = Net
ClassGUID = {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Provider = %MSFT%
LayoutFile = layout.inf
DriverVer=07/01/2001,5.0.2128.1


[Manufacturer]
%TDK% = TDK

(this is from some TDK PCMCIA network card or other)

--
Mark McIntyre

"Neil Hindry" <n_nospam_hindry@_nospam_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:44916863$0$30725$(E-Mail Removed)...
>I wonder if you can help me.
> I am new to Linux and am trying to setup my wireless network card in
> Linux. I have discovered that I can use a program on Linux (cannot
> remember the name) that will use a Windows driver.
>
> However, when I downloaded the driver for my wireless network card from
> the website it was an .exe file.
> I think the driver should be a .inf file.
>
> My question is, how can I find out what .inf file on my Windows XP Pro
> system is the driver file for my wireless network card?
>
> For information I am using Belkin's Pre-N wireless network card.
>
> I hope you can help me.
>
> I appreciate any help or information given.
>
> Thanks!

Hi,

Refering to "ndiswrapper" ...

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

....and are following the install steps:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation

In Win, have you tried to right-click on that .EXE and see if it is simply
an archive that can be extracted? If so, it likely will have a /driver
directory. If its an installer and not a simple archive, check the
directory it installs to and it may likely have a /driver directory.
Finally, last resort, simply go to Control Panel --> System --> Device
Manager and look under Driver Details for the wireless card...

Its been about half a year since I used to 'ndiswrapper' to get one DLink
wireless cards working under Linux, but I'm almost 100% certain that the Win
driver I used was a .DLL