Hey.
New to linux, but trying my hand at trying to get my wireless working on my Toshiba A100-8. Currently I am having problems getting ndiswrapper to install. yum does not have an rpm for ndiswrapper so I downloaded the it from sourceforge, when I use the "make" command from within the folder I have the source code installed in I get this error message

ERROR AFTER 'make' command:

make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/ndis/ndiswrapper-1.37/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ndis/ndiswrapper-1.37/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2


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I updated the kernel as I was told to do but that hasn't seemed to help anything. Anyone know I how I can get ndiswrapper installed?

thanks in advance.

todd

Did you install the kernel-sources package for your kernel? Ndiswrapper requires that the sources be present for it to compile.

Oh that I may not have done. How do I go about installing the kernel-sources? Can I do that using yum? Or will I need to download that sepertly?

Yum will work fine. I don't have Fedora/Yum, so until someone comes along with the exact string, have a read of http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/en/ to see how to search for the packages and choose the right one. Your first step is to do in a terminal to see exactly which kernel you have installed - your kernel-sources package must match your installed kernel.

Ok cool thanks for the link I will look through that to see if I can find what I need. Are you saying though that I can use yum to install ndiswrapper? I tried searching the list of repositories that yum provides but nothing matched yum. I figure you mean that I can just use yum to put the kernel-source in eh?


thanks todd

That's it - it'd be and the install ndiswrapper.

How come when I do a
Nothing under yum shows up?
I have seen some tutorials that tell you to edit the yum.conf file adding websites to search for the ndiswrapper program. However when I tried to run the yum command I got a timeout error.
So do I have to actually add anything to the yum.conf file to tell yum where to look for the ndiswrapper program?

Thanks again for the speedy replies

todd

Wait sorry upon reading that link I was given I found that you can use yum to install repositories locally. So if I downloaded the ndiswrapper packge from sourceforge, would I simply unpackage it and then rename it so that it has an .rpm extention? Or would I leave it in the .tar.gz format it comes in?

Would that be the code I would use to install ndiswrapper?

Also I just tried
However I get a message back saying:
So how would I install the kernel source is yum doesn't have it?

thanks again for everything

todd

Ok I did a little more searching for installing the kernel-source. Has anyone used the kernel-devel? I have been reading conflicting things about whether or not that is the kernel-source or not? If anyone could point me int he right direction I would greatly appreciate it!


thanks
todd