Wireless USB Adaptor Help

I have a Encore (model # ENUWI-SG) wireless usb adaptor that I'm trying to get working. On the ndiswrapper wiki, it lists it as supported and I got the net5523.inf file from another website. Under my device manager, it shows up as ar5523 with Device type and capabilities: unknown.

I installed ndiswrapper and I went to the folder with the inf file in it and did "ndiswrapper -i net5523.inf. I can't remember the exact feedback I got the first time but I now have a folder called net5523 in etc/ndiswrapper/ but there aren't any contents. So here are the different things that I tried and the results:

kevin@kevin-ubuntu:~$ ndiswrapper -e net5523.inf
Driver net5523.inf is not installed.Use -l to list installed drivers
kevin@kevin-ubuntu:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
net5523 invalid driver!
kevin@kevin-ubuntu:~$ ndiswrapper -i net5523.inf
net5523 is already installed. Use -e to remove it
kevin@kevin-ubuntu:~$

I'm not sure what to do now so any assistance would be much appreciated. This is my last step to being completely windows indepedent.

 

maybe first try dropping the .inf from the uninstall command.

http://www.encore-usa.com/Drivers/ENUWI-SG.zip << that's the drivers from the manufacturer.

at any rate, I don't have any experience with ndiswrapper, so I won't be of much other help.

 

Yeah, that's the same as what's on the cd but when I run it with wine, after it finishes the install I get: Unhandled Exception- DLL function crashed, setup will not terminate and I lose it all.

 

ah, crud... all the files are embedded in the setup.exe

what I don't get is that it's an atheros chip, so the madwifi driver should work http://madwifi.org/