ndiswrapper installation

n00bDanimal · 08-30-2005, 11:05 PM

I'm having difficulties installing ndiswrapper on FC4: first off I've tried installing and re-installing a few different ways and I'm not even sure if its completely removed from my system yet. any suggestions to that problem?

also, this is the first way I tried installing it. I downloaded ndiswrapper-1.2.tar.gz and un-gzipped and rolled out the tarball. then i went into that directory (ndiswrapper-1.2) and did the following

Code:

#make
#make install

so then i attempted some commands with "ndiswrapper" and it says there is no such command.

so the next time I attempted to install it I tried to modify the files into rpms using these commands: (this is inside the ndiswrapper-1.2 file on my desktop)

Code:

#make
#make rpm

I then followed the .rpms into my /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 file and proceeded to

Code:

#rpm -Uvh *.rpm

which compiled the following

Code:

kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-1.2-1.i386.rpm
ndiswrapper-1.2-1.i386.rpm
ndiswrapper-debuginfo-1.2-1.i386.rpm

any thoughts? ideas? any help would be much appreciated!

mickyg · 08-31-2005, 07:10 AM

When you type a command in the shell, without specifying the exact path the shell looks at an environment variable called PATH which contains a semi-colon delimited list of places to look for programs. If it can't find the command in these places it returns the "Command not found" message.

Make sure either a) the path to ndiswrapper is in your PATH environment variable, or, b) (my preference) that ndiswrapper, or a symlink to it is in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin or any other path that's already in your PATH environment variable.

You can view your environment variables by typing set at the shell.

You can find the location of installed programs on your linux system by using the whereis, find and slocate commands in the shell.

Hence:

$ whereis ndiswrapper

Should return a path to ndiswrapper.

I found these with a quick google search:

Basic Commands
Whereis
Finding Files

Just out of curiousity, why didn't you configure the source before running make && make install?

n00bDanimal · 08-31-2005, 08:17 AM

thanks for the help, but my ndiswrapper is located in

Code:

/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper 

/usr/share/man/man8/ndiswrapper.8  and 

/usr/share/man/man8/ndiswrapper.8.gz

but its still not recognizing it as a command. i have no idea why its not recognizing it.

edit:: oh and the reason I didn't do a ./config (and i did try it) I got an error that there was no config file....I don't think it was included in my ndiswrapper download....

azucaro · 08-31-2005, 12:31 PM

If ndiswrapper is in /sbin/, you need special authority (namely root or sudo access) to execute it. Become root and type /sbin/ndiswrapper and that should work.

n00bDanimal · 08-31-2005, 04:00 PM

w00t thanks for the help! i literally jumped for joy once i got ndiswrapper done and could FINALLY get my server online lol...i scared a few people around me.....

michaemkliu · 09-18-2005, 11:28 PM

I have followed the installation steps given at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m.../Installation.

However when I try to fullfill the prerequisite by soft-linking /lib/modules/VERSION/build to Karnel source by doing:

ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a-obj /lib/modules/2.6.11-20a-default/build

It ended with the message "permission denied". I have to admit it's been a while since I last deal with UNIX.

Any help would be appreciated.

michaemkliu · 09-19-2005, 01:32 AM

Fixed the above problem by setting user to ROOT.

Got another problem when using make, msg as follows - any clue?:

make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/michaelmkliu/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.3rc1/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-default/build SUBDIRS=/home/michaelmkliu/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.3rc1/driver \
DRIVER_VERSION=1.3rc1 \
UTILS_VERSION=1.2 modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a'
Makefile:494: .config: No such file or directory

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a/Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no modversions.

CC [M] /home/michaelmkliu/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.3rc1/driver/hal.o
/bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [/home/michaelmkliu/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.3rc1/driver/hal.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/michaelmkliu/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.3rc1/driver] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/michaelmkliu/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.3rc1/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2