[SOLVED] Wireless installtion problem with ndiswrapper

one_harsh · 02-11-2011, 04:54 AM

I tried to compile the ndiswrapper tar ball on my Fedora 14-64 bit, but it failed. The errors that it gave was:

Code:

/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c: In function ‘set_multicast_list’:
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:953:13: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘mc_count’
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:956:20: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘mc_count’
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:960:86: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘mc_count’
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:960:98: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_min2’
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:960:114: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘mc_count’
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:961:126: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘mc_count’
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:967:19: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘mc_list’
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:968:50: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:969:14: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:971:30: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:972:129: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:972:152: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:972:175: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:972:198: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:972:221: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.c:972:244: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[3]: *** [/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver/wrapndis.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/raushan/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

My wireless driver is bcm4313. Even its installation is failing. What shall I do?

eSelix · 02-11-2011, 05:21 AM

Which version of kernel do you have? It will not compile with some of them, you can try newer or older.

reed9 · 02-11-2011, 08:48 AM

You do not need ndiswrapper for this wireless card. The broadcom wl staging driver should support it.

http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/...nux-sta-driver

one_harsh · 02-12-2011, 09:22 PM

My kernel is 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64.

After doing a bit of research, I ended up on Broadcom site. It solved the problem.
thanks for the reply, btw.