FC4: How do I install ndiswrapper?

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 07:23 +1000, Benham Family wrote:
> Thanks for you help Tony.
> 
> It seems that comman requires the use of an internet connection. The reason I 
> wanted to install ndiswrapper was that the NIC in the computer in question is 
> an unsupported wireless card. Anyway, I found an ethernet card and a very 
> long ethernet cable for that machine and ran the command as you said.
> 
> It seems to have installed a different version of the kernel sources than the 
> one I wanted, 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4. I don't think it would be safe to just 
> symlink 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686 to that, would it? Do I have to now recompile 
> the kernel? how do I do that?
> 
> cheers,
> Tim
> 

As has already been said, kernel sources are not needed.  If you have
installed the kernel sources for the 2.6.11-1.1369 kernel you should
remove it before doing any builds for the 2.6.11-1.1398 kernel.

use "yum install kernel-devel" which will install all the kernel
headers, then compile ndiswrapper using the instructions you have
already been given and it will work. 

> 
> On Tuesday 19 July 2005 05:21, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > At 12:28 AM +1000 7/19/05, 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. ...
> >
> > How about this?
> >
> >     # yum install kernel-devel
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