> Thanks everyone for all the info. I seem to have this unquenchable > desire to master Linux so the random questions continue. Well after > reading around and finding people who used ndiswrapper with my same > wireless card and having no problems, I tried that option. So here's the > deal. I get the compressed file, decompress it, install it, no problems. > then I try and use it and here is where I run into problems. The > instructions say to upload the windows driver using ndiswrapper -i > drivername.inf. So I do this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ndiswrapper-1.8]$ ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf > > and get this: > > bash: ndiswrapper: command not found
Ok. Two issues here. First off, yum has a lot of different repositories of packages. The ones that you are using currently are updates-released, extras, and base. You need to use one called livna in order to install the ndiswrapper kernel module. http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html ^^^^ under Yum, this link tells you how to add the repository. Not the most standard way I've seen, but it looks like an easy solution. The other way to add it is detailed here: http://www.xades.com/proj/fedora_repos.html Once you have that, you should be able to install the kernel module with the command you tried earlier. That brings us to the other problem. In addition to the kernel module, you also want to install ndiswrapper itself. you can do that with 'yum install ndiswrapper' (or something to that effect). Once that's in, the ndiswrapper -i <driver> command should work. After you have ndiswrapper using the right driver, and you have the kernel module installed, you just need to load the kernel module with: 'modprobe ndiswrapper' After this step, run the command 'dmesg'. This will print out a ton of information, but you only actually care about the last couple lines. Make sure there aren't any ndiswrapper errors listed there. It should have some sort of successful message. (Sorry, i don't have a fedora box around at the moment, so i can't be more specific). That should be enough to get you started. I'm not sure what kind of tutorial you're working off of, so that might be good enough to get you to the end. If not, feel free to drop us some more questions! Btw, a command that I'd suggest learning is 'yum search <foo>'. It will give you a list of packages that yum can install related to foo. So, if you run 'yum search ndiswrapper' once you have the livna repository added in, it should list ndiswrapper and kernel-module-ndiswrapper (and possibly a few others). It's very useful when you're trying to figure out what you need to install. Good luck! ~Erin -- http://www.tuxgirl.com -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
