Insalling NDIS Wrapper suse 9.2

Shasta2005 · 03-06-2005, 01:53 PM

I am VERY New...I am currently using the gnome option on Suse 9.2 and I do not understand how ti install the wrapper...could someone please provide me with literally step by step instructions from the GUI to installing the wrapper which I have downloaded onto a CD..this stuff is a little above me....

david_ross · 03-06-2005, 02:02 PM

Welcome to LQ.

The installation instructions are here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/w...p?Installation

Shasta2005 · 03-06-2005, 02:10 PM

I did ...but I really do not understand what it is saying...it is all greek to me
Does it matter that I downloaded it on,my computer that runs WINXP then unzipped it to my CD which is now in my linux computer?

Where do I go to enter in these make install commands etc...

Thanks

david_ross · 03-06-2005, 02:15 PM

Which parts are you unsure of?

Shasta2005 · 03-06-2005, 02:21 PM

Well first off...It only mentions about upgrading an existing source directory...then how to I get to the Root ...do I log in as root? ...then where do I enter these commands...is it in the terminal???

When you are upgrading an already existing source-directory do

make distclean

before compiling the sources.

As root run

make

and then

make install

I just finished installing the SUSE software today, and this is my first Linux experience...so i am not too knowledgable as far as navigating

david_ross · 03-06-2005, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shasta2005
Well first off...It only mentions about upgrading an existing source directory...

It is only "make distclean" that needs to be run to clean up the source tree if you are upgrading.

Quote:

Originally posted by Shasta2005
then how to I get to the Root ...do I log in as root? ...then where do I enter these commands...is it in the terminal???

Yes. just open up a terminal. You can switch to root by entering "su -" then entering your root password.

Shasta2005 · 03-06-2005, 02:42 PM

I opened a terminal
SU- {enter}

put in my password..now it shows:
Linux:- #
I entered: Make distclean...then got "no rule to make target distclean" Stop.

I got similar responses to the other commands

david_ross · 03-06-2005, 02:49 PM

You will need to cd to the directory where the ndiswrapper source is:
cd /path/to/ndiswrapper-1.0

Shasta2005 · 03-06-2005, 03:00 PM

I guess I was ahead of myself with those previous questions, but I am still stuck. I do not know how to extract the files from the cd...I don't even know what the drive is labeled.. I think it is /dev/cdrecorder

I put an unextracted copy onto my cd

I know this should be simpler, but I have been an XP user for 4 years...trying to break free from the chains

Shasta2005 · 03-06-2005, 03:12 PM

OKay
I was able to get to the cd drive...I ran the: tar zxvf ndiswrapper-1.1.tar.gz
as it was extracting it said:
ndiswrapper-1.1/debian/xxxx(file): Cannot open: no such directory

It did that for all the files in the ndiswrapper

I attempted to cd to the ndis directory anyway, but it did not exist...
I tried it twice with two versions, got the same result

david_ross · 03-07-2005, 02:02 PM

You won't be able to write to the cd drive like that. You'll need to extract it into another location like /usr/local/src/