trying to install ndiswrapper on fc6
 

Hi folks,

I've got a Linksys wireless card in a machine that I can dual boot between XP and FC6. Mainly my son uses it for games and boots XP and in that configuration it appears to work fine for him. In particular, it has no problem connecting to my Linksys access point where the cable comes into the house.

However, under FC6, I've been using the bc43xx native linux driver and while it often works for a while, it also often drops the connection after not too long. So I've decided to try installing the windows driver using ndiswrapper. I updated my kernel to 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 with

yum install kernel

and then did a search for ndiswrapper, finding several rpms, including this one that looks like a match:
But when I tried yum install kmod-ndiswrapper.i686 I got the following error:

Huh? I installed the latest kernel and yum is telling me that it conflicts with itself??? WTF??

Any clues for the clueless?

adv10Qance,
Paul

Better idea, install use the dkms rpm package from Fedora Core and install the freshrpms-release package;

http://zod.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=118

This way when you upgrade the kernel the dmks enabled version of ndiswrapper is automatically rebuilt when the new kernel is boot the first time. No conflicts, no getting new packages every time the kernel is updated.

Thanks, Lenard! I'll give that a try. I've just downloaded the dkms-ndiswrapper. I'll see if that helps.

Best regards,
Paul