On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: > I am quite new to ndiswrapper. For Etch, I had downloaded latest > source, installed kernel headers, and then simply ./configure, make, > make install.
Try not to do that. You may break the package management when you install software outside of it. > > Now I am trying Testing, and since I supposed the official packages > would be recent, I began to simply install ndiswrapper-common and > ndiswrapper-utils-1.9. But then, when I come to do modprobe > ndiswrapper, I realized there was no ndiswrapper-module. http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=lenny&keywords=ndiswrapper > > I was hoping to find something like ndiswrapper-2.6.26-subversion-i386 > module, but no. > > So it seems I really need ndiswrapper-source (probably should remove > ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 because I believe > ndiswrapper contains source for both user-space utilities and kernel > module). > > But, as I have no wired connection, I need to get packages > individually using wireless on an other OS. > And I find it a bit long, because ndiswrapper-source seems to depends > on (in my opinion) too many packages (bzip2, debhelper, > module-assistant... debhelper having it's own dependancies: binutils, > dpkg-dev, file, html2text, man-db, perl, po-debconf). Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I think it has everything you need for that). > > Now, I am seriously thinking about just downloading ndiswrapper > sources and give up using Debian packages. But then, I tought I should > ask help here, maybe I am missing a binary package with ndiswrapper > kernel module already compiled. Install build-essential and module-assistant and the ndiswrapper packages and use m-a to build the ndiswrapper module package. -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
