Re: Ndiswrapper

[James Burke <james@priller.co.uk>]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:52:22 -0500
Teilhard Knight <teilhk@crosswinds.net> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I am a newbie in Debian with a tiny experience in Mandrake.
> 
> I have been trying to put my wireless adapter at work in Debian. Compilation 
> of the binary drivers was impossible, so I am trying to install ndiswrapper. 
> For that I need the kernel-source which matches my kernel and a symbolic link 
> "linux" in /usr/src pointing to the kernel-source also in /usr/src. I have 
> set up all this.
> 
> For compiling and installing Ndiswrapper I am following the instructions in 
> sourceforge.net:
> 
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/InstallDebian,
> 
> (should you like to have a peep). Problem is, I run into problems when I try 
> to compile the Ndiswrapper package. Doing: "fakeroot debian/rules 
> binary-modules" gives me the error: "Can't find kernel sources 
> in /usr/src/linux;". I do not know what to do now, I do not know if the 
> kernel-source lacks something, what I am doing is correct, or I am simply too 
> newbie.
> 
> I would appreciate is someone helps me install Ndiswrapper in my Debian 
> 3.1r0a-i386. Thanks.
> 
> Teilhard.
> 

If you've got internet access you can use apt-get to install ndiswrapper.

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