FC6 and ndiswrapper

[Raab Nelson]

Harold,

Every time you update the kernel, whether you are staying with the same distro version or upgrading (like you from 5 to 6) you have to reinstall any packages that aren't built into the kernel. I know for a fact that ndiswrapper isn't. The easiest way to do this is to build the ndiswrapper package from source. 

I don't have the link available, but find the tar.gz source for ndiswrapper, yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel, tar xzvf ndiswrapper-xxxxxx, cd ndiswrapper-xxxxxx, make, sudo make install.  Reboot or depmod -a, modprobe ndiswrapper.

That should do it. Let me know if you have any other questions.

The bcm package works for the pre-n cards too. :)

Raab


BlackBerry service provided by Nextel  

-----Original Message-----
From: "Harold Hallikainen" <harold at hallikainen.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:18:56 
To:redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Subject: FC6 and ndiswrapper

I did an upgrade on my hp laptop from fc5 to fc6 and my wlan stopped
working. Here's some stuff I've found:

[root at hhlaptop sbin]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5          driver installed, hardware present

So, it looks like it's there

[root at hhlaptop sbin]# /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

But maybe it isn't.

Check versions between os and ndiswrapper...

[root at hhlaptop sbin]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 (brewbuilder at hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com)
(gcc version 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22
EDT 2006



[root at hhlaptop sbin]# /sbin/modinfo ndiswrapper
modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper

Still can't find ndiswrapper...

Ideas?

THANKS!

Harold



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