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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