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

[Kurt Harper]

Good grief, Don, could it be that easy???  I obviously was asking the wrong
questions.  Thank you! I'll try removing the 1.4.2 version and installing
the 1.37 RPM version below.  I'll get back to you with how it worked as soon
as I try it.

	--Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: donjr [mailto:djr1952 at hotpop.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:10 AM
To: Kurt Harper
Cc: 'Scott Musman'; novalug at calypso.tux.org
Subject: RE: [Novalug] Help Available at May 5 Meeting on GettingNdisWrapper
to Work?

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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