Problems installing Netgear 108Mbps Card

Wheat_Thins · 04-26-2006, 03:19 PM

The card is a Netgear: WG311T

Its PCI based.

I get through most of the ndiswrapper stuff just fine.

Code:

[ericr@Terdinator utils]$ ./ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
wg311t13                driver installed, hardware present
[ericr@Terdinator utils]$

Then I follow that command up with a

Code:

depmod -a

which also goes through just fine without complaining.

Then when I try to modprobe the ndiswrapper I get an error:

Code:

[root@Terdinator sbin]# ./modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format
[root@Terdinator sbin]#

Has anybody has the same types of problems with this card and if so how did you get around it?

Thanks in advance!

Brian1 · 04-28-2006, 05:57 PM

How did you install ndiswrapper? from rpm or source.
If from rpm is the version of the ndiswrapper rpm match your current kernel running version?
If from source did you build it with this kernel running? If built from a differnet version kernel you need to rebuild it so it matches the new kernel.

Brian1

Wheat_Thins · 04-28-2006, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian1

How did you install ndiswrapper? from rpm or source.
If from rpm is the version of the ndiswrapper rpm match your current kernel running version?
If from source did you build it with this kernel running? If built from a differnet version kernel you need to rebuild it so it matches the new kernel.

Brian1

Thanks so much for your response, I had to build it myself because a version for fedora core 5 was not available. It was built with the current version of the kernel running because I suspected that the kernel would have to be the same it was built on from reading around the internet. There is a warning about Fedora Core only having a 4K stack which some windows drivers do not like. Do you know if this would have anything to do with the problems I am running into?

Brian1 · 04-29-2006, 11:54 AM

Not sure on the 4k stack. I don't use precompiled kernels due to the lack of hardware support on my system. But sounds like you got the ndiswrapper compiled and installed fine.
Does this file exist? /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5/misc/ndiswrapper.ko

Brian1

Wheat_Thins · 05-01-2006, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian1

Not sure on the 4k stack. I don't use precompiled kernels due to the lack of hardware support on my system. But sounds like you got the ndiswrapper compiled and installed fine.
Does this file exist? /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5/misc/ndiswrapper.ko

Brian1

I will give it a look at tonight, its just going to be so hard to get this machine on line because now I have moved and do not have the option of having a wire ran to it because its so far from the router, so I will have to do a bit of work on it, boot into windows to read up some more, boot into Fedora, do some fixing etc. But I already cannot stand working in windows again so I will be putting forth much effort getting the wireless working.