where to start to set up wireless?

[Jon Savage]

> Hmm. FC2/2.6 kernels already have the required include/build files
> part of the kernel (in /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build)
> 
> I would think ndiswrapper installer/makefile finds this automatically.
> 
> Satish
Just tried building it on my machine w/o kernel source installed...
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ake -C driver distdir=../ndiswrapper-0.10/driver dist
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/driver'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/driver'
make -C utils distdir=../ndiswrapper-0.10/utils dist
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/utils'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/utils'
make -C debian distdir=../ndiswrapper-0.10/debian dist
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/debian'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/debian'
tar cfz ndiswrapper-0.10.tar.gz ndiswrapper-0.10
cat ndiswrapper.spec.in | sed s/NDISWRAPPER_VERSION/0.10/ >ndiswrapper.spec
if test -d /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES ; then \
  cp ndiswrapper-0.10.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES ;\
else \
  cp ndiswrapper-0.10.tar.gz /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES ; \
fi
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/src/RPM/SOURCES': No such file or
directorymake: *** [rpm] Error 1
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Looks like it does need kernel-sourcecode installed, the machine I
built ndiswrapper on successfully did have it installed...
>From the install notes for ndiswrapper 0.10:
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Prerequisites
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* You need a recent kernel (at least 2.6.0 or 2.4.20) with source.
* Make sure there is a link to the source from the modules directory:
  '/lib/modules/<VERSION>/build' should be a link to the kernel
  source, where <VERSION> is the version of the kernel you are running.
* Some vendors ship ndiswrapper in their distributions. Either use...
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So he'll probably need to get the kernel-sourcecode & any deps before
he can build ndiswrapper,

I could be entirely wrong of course...

Bests

Jon