ndiswrapper wlan driver installed, but wlan still does not work

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Published on 2012-09-19T03:36:47Z Indexed on 2012/09/19 3:40 UTC
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I'm trying to get my Atheros AR1111 EB-WG PCI wireless adapter to work. Right now wifi is not even detected. I'm on ubuntu 12.04 64bit and I managed to find a xp64bit driver. I followed the exact steps here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

And where I do

 ndiswrapper -l

I get something like :

 {name of driver} : driver installed
       device ({Chipset ID}) present

which shows that the driver installed properly

However, after I load the new module :

  sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

nothing happens, and iwconfig shows that I still have no wlan.

I tried to do dmseg | grep ndiswrapper, but there were no driver loading errors or anything strange.

I also have blacklist ath5k, ath8k in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

What am I doing wrong? What could be causing this?

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