I am running the most up-to-date kernel (I basically did a yum update for everything in fc4 to be current on it all when I first loaded it on my system) [root@Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# uname -r 2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 When I ran your command I got the following: [root@Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# yum list kernel-module-ndiswrapper Setting up repositories livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files but when I asked it to list just the ndiswrapper I got: [root@Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# yum list ndiswrapper Setting up repositories livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 http://mirrors.bevc.net/fedora/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:21:52 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Content-Length: 234 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Trying other mirror. base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Installed Packages ndiswrapper.i386 1.2-0.lvn.3.4 installed [root@Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# Jonathan Berry wrote: > On 7/6/05, Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>I got ndiswrapper installed using the directions you gave me, thanks for all the help. I was close >>to home plate when I ran into fatal error. Its not as bad as you think although does sound scary. >>So I followed the directions for installed the drivers for ndiswrapper so you can see my steps that >>I took: >> >> >>Dowloaded the windows drivers for the wifi card >>Extracted the .exe file with command cabextract file.exe >>cd' into the file that I extracted and run the command: >>"ndiswrapper -i file.inf" >> >>Got the following response: >>Installing bcmwl5 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >>Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 >> >>Ran the command "ndiswrapper -l" to check if things were ok >> >>Got the following response: >>Installed ndis drivers: >>bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present > > > Good so far. > > >>ran the command "modprobe ndiswrapper" to load the drivers/firmware >> >>I get the following response: >> >>[root@Whistler broadcomwifidriver]# modprobe ndiswrapper >>FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. >> >> >>Can anyone help me get past this fatal error? Is there another way I can load this or even see if >>what I have is correct? >> >>Thanks > > > Hmm, did you install the Livna package using the "yum install > ndiswrapper"? I guess you need to explicitly tell it to get you the > kernel module as well. > > yum list "kernel-module-ndiswrapper*" > > will give you a list of the avialable kernel modules. Install the one > for your kernel version ("uname -r" will tell you the one you are > running). If you are running the latest FC4 kernel > (2.6.12-1.1387_FC4, which you should update to) then your install > command will be: > > yum install kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 > > Unfortuntely, the list will not show you the whole package name, so > you need to tack on the "FC4" part to the end. > > Jonathan >
