On 10/18/05, John Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Oct 2005, at 10:12, Andy Ross wrote: > > > > I have read numerous reports from others who got the same error > > > message after upgrading to Breezy, but their instructions for how > > > they fixed it do not work. > > > > Do those instructions include doing a new "make; make install" from a > > fresh ndiswrapper source distribution? > > No, the instructions didn't say anything about make or make > install. The original instructions that I used to get it working under > Hoary were here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowtoUseNdiswrapperOnAmd64Ubuntu > > However, I never could follow the above instructions until someone > on this list patiently walked me through it. > > One of the instructions for what to do after upgrading to Breezy is > here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyUpgradeNotes (toward the bottom of > the page) > > Here are two more: > > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation > http://prinsig.se/weekee/index.php/Ndiswrapper64 > > A lot of the problem is that these instructions were written by well- > meaning Linux people who are geniuses with computers but not > necessarily well-trained in written communication. They leave stuff > out, assume the reader knows what they are talking about, and > rarely think ahead to give the user hints on what to do when things > go wrong. After all, their instructions worked for them. I don't fault > them for this; none of us can be highly skilled at everything. > > > The error above sounds to me like you've simply done a kernel > > upgrade (implicit in the distro upgrade, obviously) and haven't > > recompiled the ndiswrapper module. > > I think you're essentially right. Except none of the instructions said > how to fix that issue. Even the original instructions don't work. But > they didn't work before either; that is, they didn't work until > someone here patiently explained what the original author left out. > > I must have compiled ndiswrapper for Ubuntu-64 Hoary, but I don't > remember how I did it. I do remember there was a big issue with > having the "generic" image or header installed. But I think I > currently have that covered -- all the headers and images that say > anything "generic" in Synaptic are installed. But maybe not. <Sigh> > > Thanks for the feedback. I still need help. No classes tomorrow so I > have time to fiddle, but I've already tried everything I can think of.
Hmm, okay, well. How about we forget about the packages in Synaptic and just install from source. That works and I know how to tell you to do that. I'm not familiar enough with Ubuntu/Debian to know how to deal with it's packaging. Anyway, grab the ndiswrapper 1.4 source tarball and untar it into some directory (using a terminal $ is user prompt # is root prompt): $ tar xvzf ndiswrapper-1.4.tar.gz $ cd ndiswrapper-1.4 $ make This should compile everything. $ sudo make install This should install everything. $ sudo ndiswrapper -l Make sure that the driver is still installed correctly, if not reinstall it. Then: $ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper If you still get an error message, try looking at /var/log/messages to see more about what went wrong $ sudo tail /var/log/messages Uhh, I think that should get you going if it works, or at least give us more info about the problem. I did this from memory, so some things might be slightly different. Of course, after running "make" you could do a "sudo -s" and not have to type it each time. Jonathan _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
