Hello,
I have hit a brick wall with the ndiswrapper on suse 10. I'm trying to install my belkin 54g wireless card, it all works perfectly until I do a modprobe, when I do I get the following message...

FATAL: Could not open 'lib/modules/2.6.13-15-smp/extra/ndiswrapper.ko': No such file or directory

I think that the problem is that the laptop has a hyperthreaded p4 so suse installed the smp kernel. Much googling etc hinted that it might be the smp kernel that is somehow different to the standard kernel and therefore ndiswrapper doesn't work, I also found that the smp kernels might cause problems with power managment.

I have tried installing all manner of versions, from the CD, and the latest CVS version, they all fail in the same way. I followed the install by the letter every time.

So can I just copy this file from somewhere myself? Or will this cause problems? Or should I install the normal kernel, and if I do that will the laptop run properly?

Or should I find a linux compatible wireless card on ebay or something?

Cheers,
Phil

I'm no use here except to say I also have problems with FC4 and a Belkin 54g wireless card F5D7010xx. I don;t like all that ndiswrapper stuff and so haven't even bothered.

I've always managed to get my 3com officeconnect (3CRWE154G72) working on RH9 and FC3 using the Prism54 driver and modding the hotplug in the startup script : /etc/rc.d/init.d/network to get hotplug working correctly at boot.

Seems UK spec network kit is always a bit 'special' or perhaps 'modern'.

Good Luck.

Hello,
I happened to tell my girlfriend about the pain of ndiswrapper and said how good it would be if wireless card based on the prism chip-set dropped out of the sky. About a minute later she handed me a prism based wireless card that was out of a very strange old router that used it for wireless. How cool is that!

I would still be interested in why ndiswrapper wouldn't work...

Cheers,
Phil

Sorry this is brief - I've just tried both my Belkin and my 3com (prism54) cards on FC4 and can't get _either_ of them to work.

Is there some problem with FC4 kernel - maybe ? (I'm _not_ using the smp kernel).

I have a Belkin 7F5D7050 54g USB working on an smp Pentium III using ndiswrapper. It even works even better under Linux than it does under "the other brand"

The catch here is that "make install" doesn't load the driver into 'lib/modules/2.6.13-15-smp/extra'
For some obscure reason, it loads it into 'lib/modules/2.6.13-15-smp/misc'.

Go find your new driver, copy it into 'lib/modules/2.6.13-15-smp/extra' and you should be good to go.
By the way, I'm using a Ralink driver (rt2500usb). WAY better than the piece'o'crap driver that came with the card.

Timothy.

I'm using a Belkin 7F5D7050 54g usb card with ndiswrapper on smp Suse10 on a dual Pentium III. The card runs better under Linux than it does under the "other brand"

The catch here is the "make install" doesn't put the driver in 'lib/modules/2.6.13-15-smp/extra'
It put it in 'lib/modules/2.6.13-15-smp/misc'

Go find your new ndiswrapper.ko and copy it over to 'lib/modules/2.6.13-15-smp/extra' and all should be good.

By the way, I'm using the Ralink rt2500usb driver downloaded from the Ralink website. WAY better than the piece'o'crap driver that was bundled with on the Belkin CD.

Timothy.

Sorry about the double post. A hardware glitch (not my dual PIII, someone else's PC).