modprobe
brad.mugleston at comcast.net
brad.mugleston at comcast.net
Thu Dec 9 04:34:30 UTC 2004
Rick, Mark THANK YOU
make clean, make, make install and it's working
THANK YOU AGAIN
Brad
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, very interesting but I'm still running FC2 --
>
> Well, you don't have to go through the SRPM/rpmbuild/cleanup stuff
> with FC2, but I built ndiswrapper 0.8 on all of the FC2 kernels with
> no gotchas. That was with the default 4K stacks and all.
>
> Under FC2, do the following IN THE GIVEN SEQUENCE:
>
> 1. Installed the kernel-source RPM
> 2. Bugger the kernel Makefile's EXTRAVERSION thing
> 3. Do a "make mrproper"
> 4. Copy the config file from /boot to /usr/src/linux/.config
> 5. Do a "make oldconfig" in the kernel source tree
> 6. Go to your ndiswrapper source directory
> 7. Do a "make clean;make;make install"
>
> I'll bet it works.
>
> > I did some web searching for get_user_size and saw where the
> > problem was ran into before and the question asked but no
> > response to the questions ever posted. I reasked the question in
> > one ndiswrapper group and haven't heard anything yet (but it was
> > late last night so I'm not too worried yet).
>
> I'm pretty certain you didn't do the "make oldconfig" on the kernel
> source tree BEFORE you built ndiswrapper. "get_user_size" is defined in
> the kernel source's "../include/asm/uaccess.h" file. Note that
> "../include/asm" is a symbolic link to the appropriate
> "../include/asm-(processor-type)" directory. That symlink is created
> at the "make [old]config" step of the kernel build process.
>
> Remember, you MUST go through AT LEAST the "make config" or "make
> oldconfig" step in the kernel BEFORE you build ndiswrapper. In fact,
> that's true of almost any kernel module--you must configure the kernel
> source or many of the module's dependencies won't be set properly.
>
> > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> >
> >>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> >>
> >>>I know I'm suppose to bottom post but I'm kind of starting over.
> >>>
> >>>1 - cleaned out all ndiswrapper (reversed everything).
> >>>2 - using UP2DATE upgraded to the newest kernel and source
> >>>3 - found an RPM that is suppose to fix the 4K limit
> >>>4 - make my symbolic link to the new kernel as instructed (I've
> >>>been doing reboots to make sure the latest is running)
> >>>5 - got up to make install and got a warning about being unable
> >>>to do something with variable get_user_size - being a warning I
> >>>took note.
> >>>6 - got to the mdoprobe ndiswrapper step and got an error about
> >>>get_user_size and there I sit.
> >>>
> >>>SUggestions? I checked the FAQ and didn't see this I will do
> >>>more of a search when my grandson falls asleep (need more light
> >>>in the room).
> >>
> >>My addled brain has lost track of this. Was this on FC3? I just built
> >>ndiswrapper 0.11 on my laptop running FC3 (kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3) with
> >>no patches (4K stacks) and it built and runs fine with my Broadcom
> >>BCM4306 using Windows XP drivers.
> >>
> >>The trick is, of course, getting the kernel source for FC3. You must
> >>download the kernel source RPM (there is no "kernel-source" RPM yet, you
> >>must get the SRPM from the SRPM repository). Install the SRPM via:
> >>
> >> cd /download/directory
> >> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm
> >>
> >>To make this look like one of the older "kernel-source" RPM installs,
> >>you have to patch the sources and create the kernel source tree. To do
> >>this, go to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run:
> >>
> >> rpmbuild --target i686 -bp kernel-2.6.spec
> >>
> >>After some crunching and chewing, the source tree is created...but not
> >>in the spot you expect it to be. You can move it to the classic spot
> >>by:
> >>
> >> cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9
> >> mv linux-2.6.9 /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> >>
> >>Ok, now the source tree is in /usr/src. Make the appropriate symlinks
> >>in /usr/src:
> >>
> >> cd /usr/src
> >> rm -f linux linux-2.6
> >> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux
> >> ln -s linux-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 linux-2.6
> >>
> >>Don't forget to edit "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" to change the
> >>"EXTRAVERSION=" definition to match the actual kernel version. For
> >>uniprocessors:
> >>
> >> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3
> >>
> >>for SMP:
> >>
> >> EXTRAVERSION = -1.681_FC3.smp
> >>
> >>(I think that's it for SMP, "uname -r" will tell you for sure). Once
> >>you've got that done, you can clean up the cruft left by rpmbuild by:
> >>
> >> cd /usr/src/redhat
> >> rm -rf BUILD/* RPMS/* SOURCES/* SPECS/* SRPMS/*
> >> cd /usr/src/linux
> >> make mrproper
> >>
> >>Now you've got the FC3 kernel source just like the old "kernel-source"
> >>RPMs used to make (mmmm! tasty!). Copy the config file from /boot to
> >>"/usr/src/linux/.config" and do AT LEAST
> >>
> >> cd /usr/src/linux
> >> make oldconfig
> >>
> >>Once that's done, you've got the kernel source tree configured for your
> >>system. Assuming you're running that kernel (or you've buggered the
> >>ndiswrapper Makefile to point at this kernel source tree), you can build
> >>ndiswrapper.
> >>
> >>As I said, I built ndiswrapper V0.11 in just this manner and it works
> >>fine. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Batteries not
> >>included. Etc., etc.
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:52:19 -0700 (MST), brad.mugleston at comcast.net
> >>>>><brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>ok, I downloaded and built my own kernel package. Went through
> >>>>>>everything as before and got to "modprobe ndiswrapper" which
> >>>>>>worked this time (one more step done) Looked in the system log
> >>>>>>and didn't find the message about ndiswrapper being loaded.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I had gotten the warning that I only had a 4k stack size and I
> >>>>>>may have problems - it didn't lock up or anything like it said it
> >>>>>>just didn't work.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>So I have two questions
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>1 - any good instructions on how to get the stack size larger?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Not that I know of. I thought it might be a kernel config option but I
> >>>>>can't find it this morning.
> >>>>
> >>>>You must rebuild the kernel to go back to the old 8K stack size. There
> >>>>is no other way to do it. ndiswrapper >0.80 works fine with a 4K stack.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>2 - I've read the install instructions a number of times and each
> >>>>>>time I find something else I probably need to do. It says to
> >>>>>>make sure I have the "Wireless Tools" installed. What are those
> >>>>>>and how do I tell if I have them installed. If they aren't
> >>>>>>installed where do I get them to install them?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Here's one link. Sorry this isn't easier on FC. It's trivial on Gentoo.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
> >>>>
> >>>>ndiswrapper is not a difficult thing to build or install. There are
> >>>>several prerequisites:
> >>>>
> >>>>1. You MUST have the kernel source installed for the kernel you are
> >>>>planning to have the driver run on.
> >>>>
> >>>>2. You must be RUNNING that kernel before you build ndiswrapper. The
> >>>>Makefile for ndiswraper does a "uname -r" to see which kernel to build
> >>>>for (or you can bugger the Makefile to make it use the one you want).
> >>>>
> >>>>3. You must have the gone through at least the equivalent of "make
> >>>>config" on the kernel source to configure it for your usage. This
> >>>>can be done by copying the appropriate config file from /boot and
> >>>>to the kernel source directory's ".config" file and executing "make
> >>>>oldconfig".
> >>>>
> >>>>4. You can then build ndiswrapper. Don't forget to do "make install".
> >>>>You will find the driver installed as
> >>>>
> >>>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
> >>>>
> >>>>5. Now it's installed. You can follow the rest of the instructions in
> >>>>the README/INSTALL files.
> >>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> >>>>- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
> >>>>- -
> >>>>- Death is nature's way of dropping carrier -
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