FC5 issue with ndiswrapper
Gary Cobb
gecobb at maine.rr.com
Thu Mar 23 11:22:33 UTC 2006
Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:41 -0500, gecobb at maine.rr.com wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I just loaded FC5 and then configured my NetGear WG511T with
>> ndiswrapper as is my usual process. This worked on FC4 and FC5-T3 but
>> the system-config-network app can't "see" wlan0 with the latest
>> distro. Additionally the ndiswrapper.ko module isn't getting loaded at
>> boot time. I have it working through a script in rc5.d so I don't
>> think it is a physical issue -- does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Also, is there a reason that the kernel-devel RPM isn't on the distro?
>> Having to go find that made the install experience a little less than
>> optimal for me.
>>
>>
> The kernel-devel rpm is on the distro. All I had to do was select the
> development packages and it installed it for me.
>
> kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64.rpm
> are both on the install DVD.
>
>
>> Thanks
>> -gc
>>
>>
>
>
I installed from CD with the development packages selected, and
additionally did a custom install and looked through every optional RPM
and it wasn't there. After the install finished I ran a find command on
all 5 CDs looking for "*kernel*" and it was no where to be found.
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