help installing ndiswrapper.

Royle · 08-22-2005, 09:25 AM

I'm trying to install ndiswrapper according to this here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...allDebianSarge

So far what I've done is installed wireless-tools, and ndiswrapper-source. Next I went to the directory /usr/src/modules/ndiswrapper and ran make install. Then I used ndiswrapper -i to install the windows driver. Then I tried

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modeprope ndiswrapper

and it told me there was no module ndiswrapper. What have I done wrong? Thanks in advance for your help.

kushalkoolwal · 08-22-2005, 02:55 PM

Try using this:

If you are using a custom-compiled kernel then follow these steps:

cd /usr/src/

apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-source

And then go to your current kernel source directory

cd /usr/src/linux

And then

make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image

After this

ndiswrapper -i <name of inf driver file>

modprobe ndiswrapper

And hopefully it should work.

Let me know how it went. I was also stuck to the same problem few days back.

Royle · 08-22-2005, 04:40 PM

I got an erro running

make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image

it said

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The changelog says we are creating 2.6.8-ndiswrapper, but I thought the version is 2.6.8

I'm pretty sure the problem is that I named my kernel with

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--append-to-version=ndiswrapper

I don't know how to name a kernel just 2.6.8 (I'm just a noob). I'm pretty sure the solution is to tell ndiswrapper that the version of the kernel is different, or change the name of the kernel. Neither of which I know how to do. What do I do?

kushalkoolwal · 08-22-2005, 05:44 PM

Try compiling your kernel with --revision. That;s what I had used. Also look at the following post where I had posted a very similar question.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=ndis

Royle · 08-22-2005, 08:52 PM

Hmmm I tried compiling the kernel with this:

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make-kpkg --initrd --revision kernel_image

and get this:

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I note that you are using the --reivsion flag with the value kernel_image.  However, the ./debian/changelog file exists, and has a different value 10.00.Custion.  I am confused by this deiscrepancy, and am halting.

Now what?

kushalkoolwal · 08-23-2005, 10:23 AM

I should have given you the entire command.

Try this.

fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image

Royle · 08-24-2005, 02:51 PM

just a quick question: what does

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make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image

Do?

kushalkoolwal · 08-24-2005, 07:21 PM

I think it just builds the kernel image and modules image and not the entire package. You might want to confirm this from someone else also. I used that command when I have to install some modules into my custom kernel although some times it does give me error also.