I am having problems with ndiswrapper. I can get it to print its debug data to the screen but it scrolls off the screen too fast to be of any use. I am trying to get it to write to a file but it won't appear in any of the logs (even used grep on every file in the logs directory). I did try to alter syslog.conf but not entirely sure what should be in it.

Ndiswrapper seems to print debug data using printk().

Thanks

If it is printing things to the screen but to fast for you to read you can redirect what is sent to the screen to another command. There are a few ways to do this.

One way is to pipe the command through less.
example:
ndiswrapper -l | less

Another way is to redirect the output to a file.
example:
ndiswrapper -l >> /home/me/errorfile.txt

I would recommend creating the txt file first. The redirect can work in two ways, first using only one >. This will remove all text from the file and replace it with the output of the command. the second way is using two of them like this >>. This will add the text to the bottom of the file.

I recommend using the redirect so you can cut, copy and paste easier.

onthefritz

Perhaps I should have been more clear. I am not trying to capture the standard output of ndiswrapper. The debug messages appear to be sent to the system logger which is what ends up printing them to the screen (via changing the first parameter in /proc/sys/kernel/printk). For some reason unknown to me its not ending up in any of the log files that I can find despite the fact that the logger must be receiving the messages because its displaying it on the terminal. Note it won't display it on a xterm only on the terminal in Safe Mode (i.e. without booting gnome or any other desktop enviroment).

Thanks