my system
Dell inspiron 5160 (3.0ghz HT, 512mb ram)
Slackware 11
kernel 2.6.17.13

hello all. i cant install ndiswrapper?
downloaded file, extracted to a folder /home/ndiswrapper-1.34

ran
make distclean ( ran fine )
make (error 2)
make install (error 2)

loads of errors about leaving directory /home/ndiswrapper-1.34/drivers

any suggestions on what to try?

thx

hb

Did you do ./configure? It may be needed, and if not will dutifully tell you so when you try. Before doing it do make distclean once more to make sure that the package is well and truly clean. Then try ./configure then make then make install.

No, you don't need to run ./configure with ndiswrapper. If you can post the actual errors you get from make, we can make better suggestions about what is going wrong. Ndiswrapper does compile cleanly on Slackware 11, so we just need to see what is going wrong.

here is what im running. and what errors im getting

root@lapt:/home/ndiswrapper-1.34# make distclean
make -C driver clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
rm -rf ndiswrapper.ko ndiswrapper.o crt.o hal.o iw_ndis.o loader.o ndis.o ntoskernel.o ntoskernel_io.o pe_linker.o pnp.o proc.o rtl.o wrapmem.o wrapndis.o wrapper.o usb.o divdi3.o usb.o win2lin_stubs.o \
divdi3.o workqueue.o .*.ko.cmd .*.o.cmd \
ndiswrapper.mod.[oc] *~ .tmp_versions Modules.symvers Module.symvers
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make -C utils clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/utils'
rm -f *~ *.o loadndisdriver
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/utils'
rm -f *~
rm -fr ndiswrapper-1.34 ndiswrapper-1.34.tar.gz patch-stamp
make -C driver distclean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
rm -rf ndiswrapper.ko ndiswrapper.o crt.o hal.o iw_ndis.o loader.o ndis.o ntoskernel.o ntoskernel_io.o pe_linker.o pnp.o proc.o rtl.o wrapmem.o wrapndis.o wrapper.o usb.o divdi3.o usb.o win2lin_stubs.o \
divdi3.o workqueue.o .*.ko.cmd .*.o.cmd \
ndiswrapper.mod.[oc] *~ .tmp_versions Modules.symvers Module.symvers
rm -f *_exports.h .\#* win2lin_stubs.h
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make -C utils distclean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/utils'
rm -f *~ *.o loadndisdriver
rm -f .\#*
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/utils'
rm -f .\#*



root@lapt:/home/ndiswrapper-1.34# make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17.13/build SUBDIRS=/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3/arch/i386/boot'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `dep'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3/arch/i386/boot'
rm -f .depend .hdepend
make _sfdep_/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver _FASTDEP_ALL_SUB_DIRS="/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver"
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3'
make -C /home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver fastdep
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `fastdep'. Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make[3]: *** [_sfdep_/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3'
make[2]: *** [dep-files] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

root@lapt:/home/ndiswrapper-1.34# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.17.13/build SUBDIRS=/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3/arch/i386/boot'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `dep'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3/arch/i386/boot'
rm -f .depend .hdepend
make _sfdep_/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver _FASTDEP_ALL_SUB_DIRS="/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver"
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3'
make -C /home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver fastdep
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `fastdep'. Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make[3]: *** [_sfdep_/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3'
make[2]: *** [dep-files] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.33.3'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ndiswrapper-1.34/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2


thank hb

as i can see in the above post - its looking at 2.4.33.3 kernel. - this isnt installed as far as im aware. - its got the 2.6.17.13 installed. (huge26.s) from the initial install.
listed in /lib/modules are
2.4.33.3, 2.6.17.13, 2.6.19.2

thanks
hb

sorted - t'was the kernel. loaded up the 2.6.19 ( still got nvidia issues with that one thou )
yeah.. loaded up the 2.6.19 kernel and it installed fine.

cheers for your help anyway.

hb

OK, that could be a big part of the problem. Did you install the source code for the huge26.s kernel? It should be in extra if you didn't.

im not sure -
where can i check if ive installed the souce code?

thanks

hb

I must have been writing my reply when you posted that you had gotten it to work. Slackware usually stores the kernel source code in /usr/src, but the fact that you got ndiswrapper to compile means that it is there.

If you're having nvidia troubles, you might want to search in the Slackware forum. I believe there have been many threads there about getting those drivers to work.