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I had no ndiswrapper on my Inspiron 1150 laptop (new SuSE 9.1 installation) so transferred ndiswrapper-1.0rc4 via CD-ROM. When i do the "make install" from the subdirectory, it fails with the following sequence:
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/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.0rc4/driver/usb.c: In function 'usb_select_configuration':
/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.0rc4/driver/usb.c:528: error: structure has no member named 'act_altsetting'
/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.0rc4/driver/usb.c:531: error: structure has no member named 'act_altsetting'
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.0rc4/driver/usb.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.0rc4/driver] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.0rc4/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2
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Thanks for the reply, Chris. I was root when I did the make install. What permissions should I be looking for? ( I could poke around and guess at it, but specifics would save me a lot of grief!) Thanks...
Just took a better look at your output above - permissions wont make a difference so I dont want to lead you on a WGC.
Is yours a usb card? If it isnt then I'd just try ndiswrapper v 0.11 or 0.12 instead as these seem to be more stable.
Keep me posted.
Chris
I was using ver 12 when the problem first arose yesterday. Same error - same spot in the make install process. (That's why I decided to try the 1.0rc4 -- nothing to lose!) I'll crank up the box again this morning, but I'll have less time to devote to it today (class prep to complete). I appreciate your help and that you're monitoring the forum so closely, Chris.
The card is Dell's Wireless 1350 -- a Broadcom 93406 embedded PCI controller which YAST recognizes during installation. That surprised me a bit, but, in the absence of a Linux driver for the card, there's no way YAST can automatically install it.
Following up, HangDog just posted a note under the original message saying that late versions of ndiswrapper were actually broken for kernel 2.6. He suggested going back to something prior to 0.8. That would make sense. The ndiswrapper I had working was 0.7. I'll try it again this morning.
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