Hello,

I seem to have a huge problem installing the NdisWrapper for my Wireless USB, which is Netgear WG11 v2. I installed Linux SUSE 10.1 yesterday, and it was pretty easy, until it froze on Hardware Configuration. So i had to do it manually. Anyway in order to install my Wireless, on SUSE 10.1 i had to have a driver for it, and the NdisWrapper somehow makes it work. I went to the wiki, and red the instructions. Im pretty sure i did everything right from downloading to untaring it. The commands all worked, until i got to the part where i needed to install it. is the command "make install", or "install". I was in the directory where a untared the NdisWrapper, and i said make install, but it came up with the following...

...Major:~ # cd /home/martini
Major:/home/martini # cd /downloads
-bash: cd: /downloads: No such file or directory
Major:/home/martini # cd /home/martini/Downloads
Major:/home/martini/Downloads # cd /home/martini/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23
Major:/home/martini/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23 # make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/martini/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-default/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/martini/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

This is basically what i did, and it looks like im stuck. Please help me! This is very urgent!

what is the output of ls -l /lib/modules and uname -a ?
-edit- - did you do ./configure and make before trying make install?

The output for ls -l /lib/modules is

martini@Major:~> ls -l /lib/modules
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 576 2006-08-13 09:50 2.6.16.13-4-default

The output for uname -a is

martini@Major:~> uname -a
Linux Major 2.6.16.13-4-default #1 Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GN U/Linux

But i dont know what you mean by ./configure. Is it a command? If it is here is the output,

martini@Major:~> cd /home/martini/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23
martini@Major:~/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23> ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
martini@Major:~/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23> /configure
bash: /configure: No such file or directory
martini@Major:~/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23> mak configure
bash: mak: command not found
martini@Major:~/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23> make configure
make: *** No rule to make target `configure'. Stop.
martini@Major:~/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.23>

Why cant i configure? Oh yeah and I tried the same thing in super user mode. So what do I do now?

let's start with this : Have you installed the kernel source? If yes, find where and give the path with the KBUILD=<path> argument to make (try either adding it to makefile, or executing make install KBUILD=<path> ) Never tried to install with an argument, so I can't help much.

So I typed in the command KBUILD=<path>. It gave me the following response,

martini@Major:~> su
Password:
Major:/home/martini # KBUILD=<path>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
Major:/home/martini # make install KBUILD=<path>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

What does this mean? And what do you mean by "an argument". Is there something wrong with my kernel? Is that why I cant make install. Im getting more and more confused with each day!

With ndiswrapper there is only andThat's why it's not finding configure. I have never used Suse so I don't know anything about what the package would be installed, but I do know that you need to get the guts of the kernel. Kernel sources or headers... whatever they may be called... are needed to build ndiswrapper driver.

If you upgrade your kernel you'll always have to get the sources (they should have the headers in there) and rebuild ndiswrapper.

Since Suse has its own nifty package management I wouldn't be surprised if there are packages you can install from Yast.

I said . Start out with this. Like zetabill said Look in Yast for 'kernel-source' and/or 'kernel-headers'. You could also look for ndiswrapper itself in Yast.

as to this : If you have to use it, you must replace "path" with the actual path to your kernel source.