Hello Fedora: "Support" FAQ?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 07.11.2005 schrieb Jeff Vian um 22:03:

> > various little problems, like I want to recompile the kernel on my
> > laptop to support NDIS, but the compile tree seems broken ... with
> > FreeBSD I am pretty good at plugging the error message into Google
> > Groups and usually getting a recent answer.  This does not seem the best
> > approach with Fedora: I have to learn the Fedora Way to get answers.

> Compiling anything that will affect the kernel (modules, etc.) will
> require that you installed the development packages.  Specifically, you
> need both kernel and kernel-devel for the running kernel to compile
> drivers.
> 
> I assume from your comment about ndis that you are wanting to  use
> ndiswrapper.  That does require the kernel-devel package for
> compilation.
> 
> You do not need to recompile the kernel for that, just the matching
> module. 

If "NDIS" support in the kernel means ndiswrapper, then even no
compiling is needed. It is simply installable using yum and the
rpm.livna.org repository.

Alexander


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