Hi,

I am trying to get my wireless (centrino based) in my Dell D600, running Redhat Enterprise 3 Workstation (2.4.21-4.EL). I have successfully compiled ndiswrapper. It looks like I got the dell driver installed correctly, because when I run "ndiswrapper -l", I get the following:

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present

However when I attempt to install the module via "modprobe ndiswrapper", I get the following error:

/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/misc/ndiswrapper.o: unresolved symbol usb_wrap_funcs
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/misc/ndiswrapper.o: unresolved symbol usb_reset_port
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/misc/ndiswrapper.o: unresolved symbol usb_submit_nt_urb/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/misc/ndiswrapper.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/misc/ndiswrapper.o: insmod ndiswrapper failed

Any clues???

I have no clues about a solution, but I do know that you are not alone. I have seen at least three posts here recently with more or less the same problem and all on some flavor of Fedora. The only real clue I've seen is from this site and basically it sounds like Red Hat is compiling their kernels with protection to prevent modules compiled against other versions from being being used. However, while this protection is allowing ndiswrapper to compile, for some reason it isn't allowing the ndiswrapper module to be used. You might want to search around the Red Hat site and see if they have any rpm's of ndiswrapper that would work.

I've had that with debian as well. I know I could fix it by using the same gcc as the one I compiled my kernel with. Problem is that most people don't know the version and I found it to be annoying to downgrade.

If i use version 0.10 then I can get things working to a point. My internal wireless card is recognized, but I can't get an ip address from my dhcp server

Can you assign one with ifconfig? You'll also need to use route to point to your router

ifconfig wlan0 1.2.3.4
route add default gw 5.6.7.8

Once you've set the essid you have to run a dhcp program did you do that?