FC4: How do I install ndiswrapper?

Benham Family pique at netspace.net.au
Tue Jul 19 08:18:53 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 19 July 2005 16:43, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 07:29 +1000, Benham Family wrote:
> > 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
>
> This would probably work (from the /usr/src/redhat directory):
> # rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

Nice try. This one didn't error, but even though I changed the symlink  
/lib/modules/yadda/build to point to the redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.11 directory 
your suggestion created, make still complained about not being able to find 
the kernel sources.

cheers,
Tim





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