On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 14:24 -0700, Patrick McCarthy wrote:
Hi, I'm new to Linux and need a little help installing ndiswrapper. I've installed FC4 on my desktop and downloaded updates with Up2date. I have been unable to get my linksys WMP54Gv.4 wireless card recognized by the network wizard. I have downloaded ndiswrapper in order to install the windows xp driver for the card, but am having trouble following all the install instructions on the ndiswrapper website-http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation
I used the ln -s /usr/src/linux-<kernel-version> /lib/modules/VERSION/build command to build a link to the source, inserting '2.6.11-1.1396_FC4' as the version.
You don't need that link
Instead verify that you have the kernel-devel package installed.
The next step went o.k.-'make distclean' in the ndiswrapper-1.2 directory, but the 'make' command produced a 'no link' error. Sure enough, upon clicking the /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build and source files it said there was no link. How do I find out if I have the source. If not, how do I get it? What is 'the source'. Why wouldn't it have been installed with FC4? Thanks,
You don't need the source. You need only the kernel-devel package for your currently running kernel version.
to make sure everything is there run "rpm -qa kernel*" it should give you the lines as
[jeff@eye_gore ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3
Once you have verified the 2 packages listed are installed and match the running kernel with "uname -a" then repeat the make step.
Note that my listed versions are the current ones for FC3 so yours will be different for FC4.
Patrick