Setting up wireless card using Ndiswrapper in Ubuntu

Finally I was able to get my Dell D410 laptop running Ubuntu 7.1 (Gutsy Gibbon) in dual boot mode with XP to make my wireless card work. This was the only major struggle I had, everything else from installation to setting up a wired connection to giving my install a leopard osx flavor (something I'll blog about later). The wireless card culprit seemed to lie on the bc43xx-fwcutter wireless card driver wrapper that came out of the box. Although it was able to make my detect and make my Broadcom wireless card work, I experienced are intermittent signal failures and at times my network connection runs horribly slow. I was able to fix the problem by totally uninstalling the bc43xx-fwcutter and replacing it with Ndiswrapper, something I learned while scanning the Ubuntu forums for answer. There are various step by step guides in the forum that details how to make Ndiswrapper work. After several attempts, I was able to finally find the best guide in my opinion on installing and configuring the Ndiswrapper setup. Ironically, its in the Ndiswrapper homepage itself.

Here's the link to the installation guide for Ndiswrapper - link.