FC4: How do I install ndiswrapper?

[James Kosin]

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Benham Family 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
|
Tim,

'rpmbuild -bp SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec' from the /usr/src/redhat
directory should do the trick.

Then copy or link the BUILD/kernel-2.6.11 directory to the proper place.

James Kosin
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