> Hmm. FC2/2.6 kernels already have the required include/build files > part of the kernel (in /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build) > > I would think ndiswrapper installer/makefile finds this automatically. > > Satish Just tried building it on my machine w/o kernel source installed... _________________________________________________ ake -C driver distdir=../ndiswrapper-0.10/driver dist make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/driver' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/driver' make -C utils distdir=../ndiswrapper-0.10/utils dist make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/utils' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/utils' make -C debian distdir=../ndiswrapper-0.10/debian dist make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/debian' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jsavage/ndiswrapper-0.10/debian' tar cfz ndiswrapper-0.10.tar.gz ndiswrapper-0.10 cat ndiswrapper.spec.in | sed s/NDISWRAPPER_VERSION/0.10/ >ndiswrapper.spec if test -d /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES ; then \ cp ndiswrapper-0.10.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES ;\ else \ cp ndiswrapper-0.10.tar.gz /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES ; \ fi cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/src/RPM/SOURCES': No such file or directorymake: *** [rpm] Error 1 _________________________________________________________________________________ Looks like it does need kernel-sourcecode installed, the machine I built ndiswrapper on successfully did have it installed... >From the install notes for ndiswrapper 0.10: ________________________________________________________________________________ Prerequisites ------------- * You need a recent kernel (at least 2.6.0 or 2.4.20) with source. * Make sure there is a link to the source from the modules directory: '/lib/modules/<VERSION>/build' should be a link to the kernel source, where <VERSION> is the version of the kernel you are running. * Some vendors ship ndiswrapper in their distributions. Either use... _________________________________________________________________________________ So he'll probably need to get the kernel-sourcecode & any deps before he can build ndiswrapper, I could be entirely wrong of course... Bests Jon
