FC4: How do I install ndiswrapper?

Benham Family pique at netspace.net.au
Mon Jul 18 21:29:30 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 19 July 2005 01:07, James Kosin wrote:
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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.

Thanks James, but that gives me

error: Architecture is not included: i386

The CPU in fact is an old 500MHz Celeron.

cheers,
Tim




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