Need help installing ndiswrapper

[Dennis Wicks-2]

I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.

In the INSTALL it states:

     You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
     kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
     directory. The command

       ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

     should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.

I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel
source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory & file.

How do I get these setup?

TIA!!
Dennis


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[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI-4]

Dennis Wicks wrote:

> I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.
>
> In the INSTALL it states:
>
>      You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
>      kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
>      directory. The command
>
>        ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
>
>      should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.
>
> I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel
> source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory & file.
>  

You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files.
These are in the package linux-headers-<version> .


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[Dennis Wicks-2]

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM:

> Dennis Wicks wrote:
>> I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.
>>
>> In the INSTALL it states:
>>
>>      You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
>>      kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
>>      directory. The command
>>
>>        ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
>>
>>      should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.
>>
>> I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel
>> source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory & file.
>>  
>
> You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files.
> These are in the package linux-headers-<version> .
>
>

OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked.

I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then:

   ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf
   installing bcmwl5 ...

   modprobe ndiswrapper
   FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers.

So, no difference, no joy ...

Any more help?

TIA!
Dennis








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[alan hutchinson-2]

I also am having difficulty installing ndiswrapper I don't no where to start,I thought that by useing synaptic package manager it would be a breeze but evidently not I am useing Debian Lenny beta 2 i386 with kernel 2.624 1686 also I am trying to install network everywhere 2.4 GHz wireless usb adapter,if some one could pleas help me ,
thanks in advance.

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Dennis Wicks <wix@...> wrote:

I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.

In the INSTALL it states:

   You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
   kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
   directory. The command

     ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

   should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.

I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the required directory & file.

How do I get these setup?

TIA!!
Dennis


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[Florian Kulzer-3]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:

> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM:
>> Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>> I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.
>>>
>>> In the INSTALL it states:
>>>
>>>      You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
>>>      kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
>>>      directory. The command
>>>
>>>        ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
>>>
>>>      should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.
>>>
>>> I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and
>>> the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the
>>> required directory & file.
>>>  
>>
>> You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files.
>> These are in the package linux-headers-<version> .
>>
>>
> OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked.
>
> I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common
> ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then:
>
>   ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf
>   installing bcmwl5 ...
>
>   modprobe ndiswrapper
>   FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
>
> The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers.

It seems that you have not compiled the kernel ndiswrapper module (using
module-assistant):

http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4

If this does not work for you then post the exact commands that you use
and the error messages that you get when trying to follow these
instructions.

(It seems that you attempted to use the generic upstream INSTALL
 instructions; this should not be necessary because module-assistant
 should do all the complicated stuff for you on Debian.)

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[Florian Kulzer-3]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:14:17 -0400, alan hutchinson wrote:
> I also am having difficulty installing ndiswrapper I don't no where to
> start,I thought that by useing synaptic package manager it would be a breeze
> but evidently not I am useing Debian Lenny beta 2 i386 with kernel 2.624
> 1686 also I am trying to install network everywhere 2.4 GHz wireless usb
> adapter,if some one could pleas help me ,
> thanks in advance.

Try this:

http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4

If you run into problems, post the details here (including verbatim
error messages). You can use synaptic to install the necessary packages
(the instructions in the wiki use the apt-get command) but then you have
to quit synaptic, open a terminal, become root and run the m-a
(module-assistant) commands as they are given in the wiki. ("m-a" is
simply a convenient abbreviation for "module-assistant"; they both start
the same program.)

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[alan hutchinson-2]

Hi Florian I also have bean trying to install "ndiswrapper" as well, and just like you it is proving to be problematic ,I even tryed doing it the windows way by downloading "ndiswrapper" on to the Debian desktop,but synaptic package manager just does not show it on the interface,    So I tryed following the instructions on this support site and this is what I got in my terminal

debian:/home/thegreatalsky# apt-get install module-assistant  ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ndiswrapper-utils
debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a prepare
bash: m-a: command not found
debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a update
bash: m-a: command not found
debian:/home/thegreatalsky# module-assistant auto-install ndiswrapper
bash: module-assistant: command not found
debian:/home/thegreatalsky#
                                                       "I dont know what to do"

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer%2Bdebian@...> wrote:

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM:
>> Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>> I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.
>>>
>>> In the INSTALL it states:
>>>
>>>      You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
>>>      kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
>>>      directory. The command
>>>
>>>        ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
>>>
>>>      should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.
>>>
>>> I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and
>>> the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the
>>> required directory & file.
>>>
>>
>> You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files.
>> These are in the package linux-headers-<version> .
>>
>>
> OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked.
>
> I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common
> ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then:
>
>   ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf
>   installing bcmwl5 ...
>
>   modprobe ndiswrapper
>   FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
>
> The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers.

It seems that you have not compiled the kernel ndiswrapper module (using
module-assistant):

http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4

If this does not work for you then post the exact commands that you use
and the error messages that you get when trying to follow these
instructions.

(It seems that you attempted to use the generic upstream INSTALL
 instructions; this should not be necessary because module-assistant
 should do all the complicated stuff for you on Debian.)

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[Michael Wagner-10]

* alan hutchinson <thegreatalsky@...> 08.10.2008
 

>    debian:/home/thegreatalsky# apt-get install module-assistant 
>    ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-source
>    Reading package lists... Done
>    Building dependency tree      
>    Reading state information... Done
>    E: Couldn't find package ndiswrapper-utils
>    debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a prepare
>    bash: m-a: command not found
>    debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a update
>    bash: m-a: command not found
>    debian:/home/thegreatalsky# module-assistant auto-install ndiswrapper
>    bash: module-assistant: command not found
>    debian:/home/thegreatalsky#
>                                                           "I dont know what
>    to do"

Hello Alan,

are you sure that the package was installed? Look with

dpkg -l module-assistant

And for the ndiswrapper packages. These packages are normally in the
main archive, therefore I don't understand why apt didn't find the
packages. Your /etc/apt/sources.list is ok? Make first an

aptitude update

and then look if they are installable with aptitude.

Hth Michael

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[Florian Kulzer-3]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:41:50 -0400, alan hutchinson wrote:
> Hi Florian I also have bean trying to install "ndiswrapper" as well, and
> just like you it is proving to be problematic,

Just to clarify: I am not currently using ndiswrapper at all myself,
which is why I was unaware that the name of the utilities package had
changed (see below).

> I even tryed doing it the
> windows way by downloading "ndiswrapper" on to the Debian desktop,but
> synaptic package manager just does not show it on the interface,    So I
> tryed following the instructions on this support site and this is what I got
> in my terminal
>
> debian:/home/thegreatalsky# apt-get install module-assistant
> ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-source
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package ndiswrapper-utils

The package is called "ndiswrapper-utils-1.9" on Lenny. Try this command
instead:

apt-get install module-assistant ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndiswrapper-source

You should see explicit messages that these packages are downloaded,
unpacked, and configured.

In general, if you have this kind of problem then you can use something
like

apt-cache search ndiswrapper

to find out which package is the right one to install. (If you are more
comfortable with synaptic then you can also use the search in synaptic
to find out the exact names of all ndiswrapper-related packages.)

> debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a prepare
> bash: m-a: command not found
> debian:/home/thegreatalsky# m-a update
> bash: m-a: command not found
> debian:/home/thegreatalsky# module-assistant auto-install ndiswrapper
> bash: module-assistant: command not found

This is normal, because module-assistant is not yet installed on your
system. (The problem with ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 caused apt-get to abort
the installation of all three packages that you requested.)

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[Dennis Wicks-2]

Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 10/07/2008 03:16 PM:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM:
>>> Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>>> I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly.
>>>>
>>>> In the INSTALL it states:
>>>>
>>>>      You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the
>>>>      kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules
>>>>      directory. The command
>>>>
>>>>        ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
>>>>
>>>>      should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file.
>>>>
>>>> I have kernel 2.6.26 and I have installed both the kernel headers and
>>>> the kernel source but I still don't have the build directory and the
>>>> required directory & file.
>>>>  
>>> You don't need the kernel source, but rather the kernel include files.
>>> These are in the package linux-headers-<version> .
>>>
>>>
>> OK, I did that and tried a few things, none of which worked.
>>
>> I used aptitude to purge and install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common
>> ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and then:
>>
>>   ndiswrapper -i /media/disk/drivers/network/R174291/bvmwl5.inf
>>   installing bcmwl5 ...
>>
>>   modprobe ndiswrapper
>>   FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
>>
>> The same thing happens when I use ndisgtk to install the drivers.
>
> It seems that you have not compiled the kernel ndiswrapper module (using
> module-assistant):
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-d830e05d15a64e40a56b82c293d9d9b65949b3f4
>
> If this does not work for you then post the exact commands that you use
> and the error messages that you get when trying to follow these
> instructions.
>
> (It seems that you attempted to use the generic upstream INSTALL
>  instructions; this should not be necessary because module-assistant
>  should do all the complicated stuff for you on Debian.)
>

Thanks Florian!

That was the missing piece!

But one would think that when you do 'aptitude install xyz' everything
needed to install xyz would be done, as is the case with most packages.

Thank goodness for you and others that have somehow discovered where the
secret spells are kept!

Many Thanks!
Dennis


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