Having troubles with ndiswrapper again.

[Newbie] · 05-14-2006, 07:57 PM

I have Fedora 5 with 16k kernel ( update from linuxant)
used yum to download and automatically install kmod-ndiswrapper.
It's ok with driver and device , but when i do modprobe it says that no such modul installed , and i've done all that write config for modprobe [-m] and aliases [-a].
When i do -a it says Module alias information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper;
copy it to where udev expects it and configure udev.

If someone can help me - I would gladly receive the help.

Thank you.

tech10171968 · 05-15-2006, 12:45 AM

I recently had a very similar problem with PCLinuxOS 0.92. After a marathon Google session I found that if you update your kernel then you may also have to update your version of ndiswrapper; when I did this it worked like a charm. Maybe the version of ndiswrapper you're using no longer matches your updated kernel; if so then you may have to update to a newer version.

[Newbie] · 05-15-2006, 06:55 AM

I'll try to. But the last version of ndiswrapper is not going to install. And the kmod one from yum installs itself easily.

Emmanuel_uk · 05-15-2006, 07:45 AM

if you have the kernel source and header installed,
if you remove any old version of ndiswrapper
including kmod-ndiswrapper
delete /etc/ndiswrapper

and proceed from the latest ndiswrapper tarball
untar, compile, ndis -i, ndis -l, depmod -a, modprobe ndis,
Would this not work?
I know it is the long way to do it, but actually it is not too bad