[Novalug] Help Available at May 5 Meeting on GettingNdisWrapper to Work?

donjr djr1952@hotpop.com
Wed May 2 09:09:31 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 07:56 -0400, Kurt Harper wrote:
> Scott, there was a "make mrproper" step when I recompiled the kernel, but
> NOT when I compiled ndiswrapper.  The sourceforge directions do not contain
> it.  Could that be the missing step??  If so, would I compile
> ndiswrapper-1.4.2 in the following way?
> 
> make mrproper
> make distclean
> make DISABLE_USB=1
> make DISABLE_USB=1 install
> 
> 	--Kurt

Why don't you save a lot of the problems of properly building
ndiswrapper and instead go out and get the prebuilt package for your
distribution?

I your message at one point you said that you where running:
     CentOS 4.4 kernel 2.6.9-42.0.10

Well a quick google of: CentOS 4.4 kernel 2.6.9-42.0.10  ndiswrapper
returned about six(6) hits.
One of which was a link to: "RPM Search" 
Which had a pointer to:
<http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/3947347/com/ndiswrapper-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL-1.37-6.el4.at.x86_64.rpm.html>
and from that page you can download the prebuilt package(rpm) or if you
insists on building the rpm yourself then I suggest that you start with
the pre-built SOURCE code rpm.

Either way I think you will have a much easier time of properly
installing the kernel modules and/or driver's that way.

If I wanted to install Ndiswrapper on my Ubuntu base system it would be
as easy as:  sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils
 {Which installs the utils package as the default Ubuntu kernel already
provides the required modules for your uses.}

If I decide to build a CUSTOM kernel then I would just also install the
ndiswrapper-source package to be able to build those modules.



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