Heya, I've been trying to get ndiswrapper installed and working, and modprobe keeps failing for me. I'm using Fedora Core 1, kernel 2.4.22-1.2174 (last time I checked?). Anyways, here's what I'm coming up with, any help would be appreciated, it's probably simple and I'm just being dumb.

# /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o: unresolved symbol strcmp
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod ndiswrapper failed

Also tried it with -q parameter...
# /sbin/modprobe -q ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod ndiswrapper failed


Thanks in advance.

adding a few more attempts to maybe give more info, if nothing else:

# /sbin/modprobe -v ndiswrapper
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o
Symbol version prefix ''
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o: unresolved symbol strcmp
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod ndiswrapper failed


# /sbin/insmod -f ndiswrapper
Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2174.nptl/misc/ndiswrapper.o: unresolved symbol strcmp

So, I've gotten past this (I would love to help other, explain how, etc etc... but basically what wound up happening is I tried to update my kernel with Red Carpet, and that ruined my install so I had to re-install, so then off of a fresh Fedora Core 1 install I updated my kernel to 4.2.22-1.2174, installed the source for it, made the sym-link from /lib/modules/<version>/build to /usr/src/linux-<version>, satisfied dependencies, and I was up and good to go this time). However, now I'm trying to configure a wireless device, and the directions are basically:
>iwconfig
to figure out what your wireless interface is, and then
>iwconfig <wireless_interface> mode Managed

However, I keep failing here and don't know what I can do from here. Help would be nice.

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.

# iwconfig eth0 mode Managed
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device eth0 ; Operation not supported.

More progress! So I poked around a little bit, then I restarted my computer in hopes something would happen and it would be happy, but no luck there. However, then I opened up a terminal, and started playing around, checked iwconfig with no luck, and then I modprobed ndiswrapper just for kicks, then did iwconfig, and I got wlan0 to come up, and followed the directions to set most things up. However, I don't think I'm quite there yet, and not sure if I have to worry about the following step or not:

"Now, setup the network parameters for the interface wlan0. This varies
from distribution to distribution. Refer to your distribution's
documents on how to do this. Once this is done, you can use network
tools to bring up the network; e.g.,"

I'm being slow here, just not sure what going about setting up network parameters consists of.

Alrighty, so I got it all up and working and happy. I realized shortly after my last post that that entire blurb merely refers to setting up ifconfig to recognize wlan0, which is does via the command: ifconfig wlan0 up. Yay, great. So then, I still had no wireless, and went into network devices to see if anything was showing up there, but still no dice. Well, I did what I like to pretend works all the time, and I restarted my computer.
Lo and behold, after I logged back in, ndiswrapper showed up under the Hardware tab. Then, all I did was go to the devices tab, create a new wireless one, and set things up to correspond to my AP. Wireless internet for me! =) GL