How to fix “Module ndiswrapper not found"

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Published on 2012-11-05T22:02:27Z Indexed on 2012/11/08 5:19 UTC
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I have Ubuntu 12.10 and whenever I run sudo modprobe ndiswrapper, I get the following error.

FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

The command dkms status returns with...

ndiswrapper, 1.57, 3.2.0-32-generic, i686: installed

The make.log in ndiswrapper returns with...

DKMS make.log for ndiswrapper-1.57 for kernel 3.5.0-18-generic (i686)

Wed Nov  7 22:16:12 EST 2012

make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-18-generic M=/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper
/1.57/build

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-18-generic'

LD      /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/built-in.o

MKEXPORT /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/crt_exports.h

MKEXPORT /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/hal_exports.h

MKEXPORT /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ndis_exports.h

MKEXPORT /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ntoskernel_exports.h

MKEXPORT /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ntoskernel_io_exports.h

MKEXPORT /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/rtl_exports.h

MKEXPORT /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/usb_exports.h

CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/crt.o

CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/hal.o

CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/iw_ndis.o

CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/loader.o

CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ndis.o

/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ndis.c: In function 
‘NdisGetCurrentProcessorCounts’:

/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ndis.c:2657:24: error: ‘struct kernel_stat’ has 
no member named ‘cpustat’

/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ndis.c:2658:31: error: ‘struct kernel_stat’ has 
no member named ‘cpustat’

/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ndis.c:2659:17: error: ‘struct kernel_stat’ has 
no member named ‘cpustat’

make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build/ndis.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.57/build] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-18-generic'

make: *** [modules] Error 2

I have installed commons, utils-1.9, dkms, source but it's still returning this error. How do I fix this?

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