Re: module-assistant/ndiswrapper/kernel-headers

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:23:30PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
>   
> > Hi All,
> >     
>
> hey. don't you wish this snow would quit hanging around?
>
>   
> > I just rebuilt my laptop and am having problems getting ndiswrapper 
> > installed.  Module-assistant gives me an error saying I do not have the 
> > correct kernel-headers package installed and fails to build 
> > ndiswrapper.  The problem is that there is no kernel-headers package 
> > with the same exact package version as the installed kernel version.
> >
> > The installed kernel is reported as 2.6.18-3-486 by uname -a.  The only 
> > kernel headers package available with apt-get for Sid or Etch is 
> > 2.6.18-6. 
> > What would I file a bug report against?  m-a or ndiswrapper? 
> >     
>
> huh. looks to me like we've just seen a kernel upgrade in sid from
> 2.6.18-3 to 2.6.18-4.  you could either upgrade your kernel or try
> backports.debian.org and try and get it from there. Also apt-cache
> search shows that the common header files for 2.6.18-3 are still
> around, you might be able to use those. 
>
> A
>   
Snow?  What snow?  LOL.  It's still cold down here, but the snow has 
been gone for more than week here.  We had a few days in the mid-30's 
and that was enough to get rid of the snow we had, and we didn't get any 
this last time it snowed up there. 

Thanks for the heads up on the new images and headers.  I was looking 
for new images and headers, but was searching for kernel-image and 
kernel-header, not linux-image and linux-header so nothing compatible 
was showing up. 

I'll be in town tomorrow so I may stop in for a few minutes.