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
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
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
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
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