ndiswrapper and version numbers

kronchev · 03-21-2005, 02:05 AM

Disclaimer: This is only my second day of actual linux usage so bear with me

I'm trying to get ndiswrapper working with my PCMCIA motorola WN825G. Those details arent as important as this:

I'm using debian, and i'm following the debian instructions per the wiki on ndiswrapper:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/p...allDebianSarge

Everything goes swimmingly until I get up to the modprobe part

modprobe ndiswrapper

It gives me this crap:

Quote:

horizon:~/wireless# modprobe ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386/misc/ndiswrapper.o: kernel-module version mismatch
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386/misc/ndiswrapper.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.27
while this kernel is version 2.4.27-1-386.
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386/misc/ndiswrapper.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod ndiswrapper failed

I know that -1-386 is the processor designation but why in the lords name is it SO IMPORTANT that the names are slightly off? I could NOT find a source for 2.4.27-1-386 so I got 2.4.27. EVERYTHING works fine but then it gives me that crap? Can I force it to hook to the driver anyway?

Here is my source directory showing the tar.gz and the directory it is getting the headers from. Got it with apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27.

Quote:

horizon:~/wireless# !l
ls -l /usr/src
total 169612
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2005-03-21 02:55 kernel-source-2.4.27
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173363200 2005-01-19 05:26 kernel-source-2.4.27.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132547 2005-03-04 22:10 ndiswrapper-source.tar.gz

and for no reason:

Quote:

Linux horizon 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Again, i AM following the instructions to the letter, hell ndis even sees my hardware and the driver and it should be working 100%. This is crap.

PLEASE help me, I only have 1 internet cable between 3 computers, two have wireless but debian and its going to drive me NUTS until I get this done right!

Thanks!

dastrike · 03-21-2005, 05:08 PM

You don't have the proper kernel headers installed. (There should be directories called kernel-headers-2.4.27-1 and kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-386 in the /usr/src directory)

You only have the kernel source installed, which isn't good enough.

You need the kernel-headers for the very kernel you have.
Typically that is installed by

Code:

apt-get install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)

But, since your kernel is not the most current one in the repositories, there are no headers for your very specific kernel there.

I recommend that you install a kernel just like I have mentioned to you earlier. (reboot after the installation of the new kernel and then install the kernel-headers as mentioned above)

And I think those instructions for the ndiswrapper are are a bit flawed/incomplete for the step #3.
The link creation should be done on the kernel-headers dir for your specific kernel instead
I suggest you create the symlink like this instead, and it should work better (type it as-it-is, the $(uname -r) part will automatically be replaced with the kernel version you are running.:

Code:

ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-$(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build

(after you have installed a new kernel and corresponding kernel-headers, since your currently installed kernel is not the latest available of its specific kind, therefore there are no kernel-headers available for it, just as I mentioned above).

kronchev · 03-21-2005, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dastrike
You don't have the proper kernel headers installed. (There should be directories called kernel-headers-2.4.27-1 and kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-386 in the /usr/src directory)

You only have the kernel source installed, which isn't good enough.

You need the kernel-headers for the very kernel you have.
Typically that is installed by

Code:

apt-get install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)

But, since your kernel is not the most current one in the repositories, there are no headers for your very specific kernel there.

I recommend that you install a kernel just like I have mentioned to you earlier. (reboot after the installation of the new kernel and then install the kernel-headers as mentioned above)

And I think those instructions for the ndiswrapper are are a bit flawed/incomplete for the step #3.
The link creation should be done on the kernel-headers dir for your specific kernel instead
I suggest you create the symlink like this instead, and it should work better (type it as-it-is, the $(uname -r) part will automatically be replaced with the kernel version you are running.:

Code:

ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-$(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build

(after you have installed a new kernel and corresponding kernel-headers, since your currently installed kernel is not the latest available of its specific kind, therefore there are no kernel-headers available for it, just as I mentioned above).

I will be upgrading the kernel when I get some free time. Thanks for all your help, both here and in the past