Need help with ndiswrapper

[Patrick McCarthy]

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.  
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,
Patrick

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 31.07.2005 schrieb Patrick McCarthy um 23:24:
> 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

Which chipset does the Linksys NIC use? I thought that model would use a
Ralink chip.

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Would be intesting to know for me as I am looking for a WLAN PCI card
myself and the WMP54G was one of my candidates.

/sbin/lspci -v

may give good information about the NIC model.
> 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.  
> 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?

yum install kernel-devel

That will bring you all you need to compile additional kernel modules.
> Patrick

Alexander

[Benham Family]

On Monday 01 August 2005 07:24, Patrick McCarthy wrote:
> 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.
> 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?

A week ago I was told
> kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i586.rpm is on disc 4
> kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm is on disc 4
>
> Installing the kernel-devel package was all I needed to build
> ndiswrapper.

and it worked.

cheers,
Tim

[Jeff Vian]

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

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 31.07.2005 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 23:50:
> Am So, den 31.07.2005 schrieb Patrick McCarthy um 23:24:
> > 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
>
> Which chipset does the Linksys NIC use? I thought that model would use a
> Ralink chip.
>
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> Would be intesting to know for me as I am looking for a WLAN PCI card
> myself and the WMP54G was one of my candidates.
> Alexander

I forgot to mention that if you really need a driver workaround like the
ndiswrapper you could avoid to compile it yourself by using the
rpm.livna.org repository and installing it packaged for FC4.

Alexander