Need help with ndiswrapper

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 31.07.2005 schrieb Patrick McCarthy um 23:24:

> I'm new to Linux and need a little help installing ndiswrapper.  I've
> installed FC4 on my desktop and downloaded updates with Up2date.  I have
> been unable to get my linksys WMP54Gv.4 wireless card recognized by the
> network wizard.  I have downloaded ndiswrapper in order to install the
> windows xp driver for the card, but am having trouble following all the
> install instructions on the ndiswrapper
> website-http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation

Which chipset does the Linksys NIC use? I thought that model would use a
Ralink chip.

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Would be intesting to know for me as I am looking for a WLAN PCI card
myself and the WMP54G was one of my candidates.

/sbin/lspci -v

may give good information about the NIC model.

> I used the 
> ln -s /usr/src/linux-<kernel-version> /lib/modules/VERSION/build command
> to build a link to the source, inserting '2.6.11-1.1396_FC4' as the
> version.  
> The next step went o.k.-'make distclean' in the ndiswrapper-1.2
> directory, but the 'make' command produced a 'no link' error.  Sure
> enough, upon clicking the /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build and
> source files it said there was no link.
> How do I find out if I have the source.  If not, how do I get it? 
> What is 'the source'. Why wouldn't it have been installed with FC4?

yum install kernel-devel

That will bring you all you need to compile additional kernel modules.

> Patrick 

Alexander


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