FC4: How do I install ndiswrapper?

Terry Snyder terryjr386 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 18:48:15 UTC 2005


I found the kernel-dev-2.6.11-1.1369.rpm file on the install DVD.  I
ran rpm -i kernel-dev-2.6.11-1.1369.rpm and this installed the source
that is needed.

On 7/18/05, Benham Family <pique at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Apparently it expects kernel sources in
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686, but the FC4 install didn't put them
> there. Checking the README file on the first install disk I discovered that
> unlike my previous installation, kernel sources were no longer included. I
> needed to download kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm. Looking at the man page
> for rpm I guessed I needed to --install it, but that didn't seem to do
> anything exciting. After some searching I discovered it had put a large
> number of files into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. My joy was short-lived when I
> found that this was not the desired kernel source code, but the source code
> for a different kernel and a large number of .patch files.
> 
> How do I get to my desired kernel source from where I am? do I have to extract
> the bzip2'd tarball and apply the patches one by one? in some particular
> order?
> 
> cheers,
> Tim
> 
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