Wireless card with Fedora 9

[peejay1977]

Hi all,

First off I am a total Linux virgin. Worked in PC/Server support for 14 years but never really taken an interest in Linux until now.

I have completely binned Vista on my desktop in favour of Kubuntu and after a few teething issues have most packages installed, including Virtual Box OSE and Wine.

I have installed Fedora 9 on my wife's old laptop and we have a Netgear WG111v2 USB wireless adapter for it. However I am aware of the issues getting it to work.

This has led me in the direction of NDISWRAPPER but unfortunately I cannot get this to install and anything else I try and install after Googling the problem doesnt seem to work.

The error I am getting is the common :

[steff@localhost ndiswrapper-1.53]$ make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/steff/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.53/driver'
Makefile:23: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steff/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.53/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

A bit of research has led me onto several fixes, some mentioning installed kernel-devel-..... files but nothing seems to succeed and I'm halted by an error no matter what I do.

In case it matters, a uname -r provides this info, if its relevant...

2.6.25-14.fc9.i686

Any help would be most appreciated as at this point I'm wondering if its easier to just buy a USB-RJ45 adapter......

Many Thanks


Paul.

[falko]

Isn't there an ndiswrapper package in the repositories? What's the output of yum search ndiswrapper?

[peejay1977]

Isn't there an ndiswrapper package in the repositories? What's the output of yum search ndiswrapper?

Does that require some form of active internet connection? Unfortunately the laptop in question only has a modem and no ethernet port.

[peejay1977]

I managed to copy over and install the kernel-devel package but when installing NDISWRAPPER I now get a different error :


[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -ivh kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-1.52-30.lvn9.i686.rpm
warning: kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-1.52-30.lvn9.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec
error: Failed dependencies:
kmod-ndiswrapper >= 1.52-30.lvn9 is needed by kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-1.52-30.lvn9.i686
ndiswrapper-kmod-common >= 1.52 is needed by kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-1.52-30.lvn9.i686


So I thought OK, I'll install the kmod-ndiswrapper-1.52.30.lvn9.rpm file and see if the first dependency clears up, instead I get this error :


[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -ivh kmod-ndiswrapper-1.52-30.lvn9.i686.rpm
warning: kmod-ndiswrapper-1.52-30.lvn9.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec
error: Failed dependencies:
kmod-ndiswrapper-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 = 1.52-30.lvn9 is needed by kmod-ndiswrapper-1.52-30.lvn9.i686


I'm determined not to let this beat me so I appreciate everyones patience!

[falko]

Does that require some form of active internet connection?
Yes, that's right. Please go online and try again.