Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
Hi Florian I also have bean trying to install ndiswrapper as well, and just like you it is proving to be problematic ,I even tryed doing it the windows way by downloading ndiswrapper on to the Debian desktop,but synaptic package manager just does not show it on the interface,So I tryed following the instructions on this support site and this is what I got in my terminal debian:/home/thegreatalsky# apt-get install module-assistant ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-source Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package ndiswrapper-utils debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a prepare bash: m-a: command not found debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a update bash: m-a: command not found debian:/home/thegreatalsky# module-assistant auto-install ndiswrapper bash: module-assistant: command not found debian:/home/thegreatalsky# I dont know what to do On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files. These are in the package linux-headers-version . OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked. I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then: ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf installing bcmwl5 ... modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers. It seems that you have not compiled the kernel ndiswrapper module (using module-assistant): http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4 If this does not work for you then post the exact commands that you use and the error messages that you get when trying to follow these instructions. (It seems that you attempted to use the generic upstream INSTALL instructions; this should not be necessary because module-assistant should do all the complicated stuff for you on Debian.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
* alan hutchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08.10.2008 debian:/home/thegreatalsky# apt-get install module-assistant ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-source Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package ndiswrapper-utils debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a prepare bash: m-a: command not found debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a update bash: m-a: command not found debian:/home/thegreatalsky# module-assistant auto-install ndiswrapper bash: module-assistant: command not found debian:/home/thegreatalsky# I dont know what to do Hello Alan, are you sure that the package was installed? Look with dpkg -l module-assistant And for the ndiswrapper packages. These packages are normally in the main archive, therefore I don't understand why apt didn't find the packages. Your /etc/apt/sources.list is ok? Make first an aptitude update and then look if they are installable with aptitude. Hth Michael -- The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. -Saint Augustine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 10/07/2008 03:16 PM: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files. These are in the package linux-headers-version . OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked. I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then: ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf installing bcmwl5 ... modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers. It seems that you have not compiled the kernel ndiswrapper module (using module-assistant): http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4 If this does not work for you then post the exact commands that you use and the error messages that you get when trying to follow these instructions. (It seems that you attempted to use the generic upstream INSTALL instructions; this should not be necessary because module-assistant should do all the complicated stuff for you on Debian.) Thanks Florian! That was the missing piece! But one would think that when you do 'aptitude install xyz' everything needed to install xyz would be done, as is the case with most packages. Thank goodness for you and others that have somehow discovered where the secret spells are kept! Many Thanks! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:41:50 -0400, alan hutchinson wrote: Hi Florian I also have bean trying to install ndiswrapper as well, and just like you it is proving to be problematic, Just to clarify: I am not currently using ndiswrapper at all myself, which is why I was unaware that the name of the utilities package had changed (see below). I even tryed doing it the windows way by downloading ndiswrapper on to the Debian desktop,but synaptic package manager just does not show it on the interface,So I tryed following the instructions on this support site and this is what I got in my terminal debian:/home/thegreatalsky# apt-get install module-assistant ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-source Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package ndiswrapper-utils The package is called ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 on Lenny. Try this command instead: apt-get install module-assistant ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndiswrapper-source You should see explicit messages that these packages are downloaded, unpacked, and configured. In general, if you have this kind of problem then you can use something like apt-cache search ndiswrapper to find out which package is the right one to install. (If you are more comfortable with synaptic then you can also use the search in synaptic to find out the exact names of all ndiswrapper-related packages.) debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a prepare bash: m-a: command not found debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a update bash: m-a: command not found debian:/home/thegreatalsky# module-assistant auto-install ndiswrapper bash: module-assistant: command not found This is normal, because module-assistant is not yet installed on your system. (The problem with ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 caused apt-get to abort the installation of all three packages that you requested.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files. These are in the package linux-headers-version . OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked. I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then: ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf installing bcmwl5 ... modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers. It seems that you have not compiled the kernel ndiswrapper module (using module-assistant): http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4 If this does not work for you then post the exact commands that you use and the error messages that you get when trying to follow these instructions. (It seems that you attempted to use the generic upstream INSTALL instructions; this should not be necessary because module-assistant should do all the complicated stuff for you on Debian.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:14:17 -0400, alan hutchinson wrote: I also am having difficulty installing ndiswrapper I don't no where to start,I thought that by useing synaptic package manager it would be a breeze but evidently not I am useing Debian Lenny beta 2 i386 with kernel 2.624 1686 also I am trying to install network everywhere 2.4 GHz wireless usb adapter,if some one could pleas help me , thanks in advance. Try this: http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4 If you run into problems, post the details here (including verbatim error messages). You can use synaptic to install the necessary packages (the instructions in the wiki use the apt-get command) but then you have to quit synaptic, open a terminal, become root and run the m-a (module-assistant) commands as they are given in the wiki. (m-a is simply a convenient abbreviation for module-assistant; they both start the same program.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
I also am having difficulty installing ndiswrapper I don't no where to start,I thought that by useing synaptic package manager it would be a breeze but evidently not I am useing Debian Lenny beta 2 i386 with kernel 2.624 1686 also I am trying to install network everywhere 2.4 GHz wireless usb adapter,if some one could pleas help me , thanks in advance. On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Dennis Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. How do I get these setup? TIA!! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help installing ndiswrapper
I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. How do I get these setup? TIA!! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files. These are in the package linux-headers-version . -- Be consistent. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files. These are in the package linux-headers-version . OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked. I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then: ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf installing bcmwl5 ... modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers. So, no difference, no joy ... Any more help? TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help installing ndiswrapper
I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. How do I get these setup? TIA!! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper
Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file. I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory file. How do I get these setup? TIA!! Dennis Hi Dennis, Please don't hijack existing threads. Post your question as a new thread and this will avoid confusion for all and more relevant answers for you. Thanks a lot, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
