brad mugleston comcast net wrote:
I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over.
1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything).
2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source
3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit
4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've
been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running)
5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable
to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I
took note.
6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about
get_user_size and there I sit.
SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do
more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light
in the room).
My addled brain has lost track of this. Was this on FC3? I just built
ndiswrapper 0.11 on my laptop running FC3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3) with
no patches (4K stacks) and it built and runs fine with my Broadcom
BCM4306 using Windows XP drivers.
The trick is, of course, getting the kernel source for FC3. You must
download the kernel source RPM (there is no "kernel-source" RPM yet, you
must get the SRPM from the SRPM repository). Install the SRPM via:
cd /download/directory
rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm
To make this look like one of the older "kernel-source" RPM installs,
you have to patch the sources and create the kernel source tree. To do
this, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run:
rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec
After some crunching and chewing, the source tree is created...but not
in the spot you expect it to be. You can move it to the classic spot
by:
cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9
mv linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
Ok, now the source tree is in /usr/src. Make the appropriate symlinks
in /usr/src:
cd /usr/src
rm -f linux linux-2.6
ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux
ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux-2.6
Don't forget to edit "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" to change the
"EXTRAVERSION=" definition to match the actual kernel version. For
uniprocessors:
EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3
for SMP:
EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3.smp
(I think that's it for SMP, "uname -r" will tell you for sure). Once
you've got that done, you can clean up the cruft left by rpmbuild by:
cd /usr/src/redhat
rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/*
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
Now you've got the FC3 kernel source just like the old "kernel-source"
RPMs used to make (mmmm! tasty!). Copy the config file from /boot to
"/usr/src/linux/.config" and do AT LEAST
cd /usr/src/linux
make oldconfig
Once that's done, you've got the kernel source tree configured for your
system. Assuming you're running that kernel (or you've buggered the
ndiswrapper Makefile to point at this kernel source tree), you can build
ndiswrapper.
As I said, I built ndiswrapper V0.11 in just this manner and it works
fine. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not
included. Etc., etc.
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad mugleston comcast net
<brad mugleston comcast net> wrote:
ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through
everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which
worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log
and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded.
I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I
may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it
just didn't work.
So I have two questions
1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger?
Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I
can't find it this morning.
You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There
is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack.
2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each
time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to
make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those
and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't
installed where do I get them to install them?
Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are
several prerequisites:
1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are
planning to have the driver run on.
2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The
Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build
for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want).
3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make
config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This
can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and
to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make
oldconfig".
4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install".
You will find the driver installed as
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in
the README/INSTALL files.
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