ndiswrapper stops working after yum update (including updating ndiswrapper)

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks.

I've got set up on my laptop WIFI using ndiswrapper installed by RPM and 
alls been working fine.  When I want to go wireless I run the script below.

However, since I've run a 'yum update'  which included a new kernel and the 
dependency of the ndiswrapper rpm it's stopped working.

ndiswrapper loads with no errors, but does not create a network device.  The 
driver says it's loaded fine and detected the hardware.
[root at dcomp5 ~]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
neta3ab         driver installed, hardware present
[root at dcomp5 ~]#


The install worked fine, and the rpm -qa shows:

[root at dcomp5 ~]# rpm -qa|grep kernel
kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4
kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4-1.5-0.lvn.1.4
kernel-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4
kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4-1.8-0.lvn.1.4
kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.stk16
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4-1.13-1.1.lvn4
[root at dcomp5 ~]# uname -a
Linux dcomp5.ringways.co.uk 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 #1 Tue Mar 28 12:19:10 EST 2006 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at dcomp5 ~]#  

This is the script I run. I get no errors from the depmod or  modprobe.

[root at dcomp5 ~]# more bin/wan-up
#!/bin/bash

depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed key open <mykey>
ESSID=`iwlist wlan0 scan|grep ESSID|cut -d '"' -f 2`
echo ESSID=$ESSID
if [ "$ESSID" == "DAP1" ]; then
  IP=10.2.1.29
  GW=10.2.1.1
else
  IP=10.1.1.29
  GW=10.1.1.112
fi
  ifconfig wlan0 $IP netmask 255.255.0.0
  route add default gw $GW
[root at dcomp5 ~]#

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