[olug] NDIS Wrapper

[Benjamin Montgomery]

I spent most of this afternoon getting ndiswrapper to work with a
WMP54G.  It is not easy to do.  I used the lastest release ndiswrapper
0.9 deb packages.  I think there is some newer stuff in CVS, but didn't
research it that much.  Next...ditch the linksys drivers.  Go and find
the chipset manufacturer's driver distro and use that instead.  The
ndiswrapper site has the broadcom driver on it
(http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/supported_chipsets.html).

Make sure that you run "make-kpkg" in the source tree.  You can't just
unpack the source and compile against it.

Also, the "ndiswrapper -l" never sees my card, but when I insmod
ndiswrapper it works.

In the end I got it to work and it seems to be running at full speed.
Haven't had enough time to do any real tests with it though.

-Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Sean Edwards
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 7:34 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] NDIS Wrapper


Has anyone installed ndiswrapper?

I am trying to install a Linksys WMP11 (PCI 802.11b
card).  Apparently, there are only a couple of ways to
do this.  I would prefer to do this from source, which
is why I am trying NDIS wrapper.  LINUXANT is my
second option, but that is a commercial binary install
only.

lspci says I have the following:

0000:01:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation
BCM4301 802.11b (rev 02)

lspci -n id's the card as this:

0000:01:04.0 0280: 14e4:4301 (rev 02)

No matter what I link where, I get the following
error:

"You don't seem to have sources for your kernel; 
install them in /usr/src, link
/lib/modules/2.4.18/build to it and try again."

I am on Debian, and these are the paths:

/lib/modules/2.4.18
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18

I have tried:

ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 
lib/modules/2.4.18/build

I have also tried linking many sub dirs under
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 to /lib/modules/2.4.18/build, producing
the same error above.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com


	
		
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