I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and after searching these forums unsuccessfully, I have installed the driver for my AE1200 and it is working correctly.
Here is how I did it:
First, install ndiswrapper and be sure to install ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-dkms as well.
Then, download the XP driver for the device: http://support.linksys.com/en-us/support/adapters/AE1200
Extract the zip and cd
to the folder (probably xp). If you attempt to install the driver with ndiswrapper at this point, you will receive the "couldn't find section "Linksys_AE1200.files.NTamd64"" error. To resolve this, edit the bcmwlhigh5.inf file. Find the section that looks like this:
[Linksys_AE2500.files.NT]
AE2500xp.sys,,,6
Underneath it, add this:
[Linksys_AE1200.files.NTamd64]
AE1200xp64.sys,,,6
[Linksys_AE2500.files.NTamd64]
AE2500xp64.sys,,,6
Save and close.
Then, if you've already attempted to install the driver with ndiswrapper you'll need to remove it, run:
sudo ndiswrapper -e bcmwlhigh5
Then do the install again:
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwlhigh5.inf
Verify with:
sudo ndiswrapper -l
Now plug in the USB device and the blue light should come on.
I could be wrong, but I think this means whoever wrote these .inf files forgot to include those lines, which I find funny.
**Update for 12.10- If you install ndiswrapper-dkms it will fail and you will start getting system errors. Follow the solution here to resolve: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ndiswrapper/+bug/1023645/comments/3
As a side note the source code he refers to is everything in the "driver" directory of the extracted tar.gz
In addition, you will also want to run:
sudo dkms remove ndiswrapper/1.57 --all
and
sudo dkms uninstall ndiswrapper/1.57
lsusb
, and edit your question including what you see in the terminal after using that command (that way we'll have the vendor ID and product ID of your adapter). Also helps to include the model name of your adapter.ndiswrapper
. You probably don't need to worry about that, we'll give you detailed instructions once we know more about your wireless adapter.