On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 07:23 +1000, Benham Family wrote: > Thanks for you help Tony. > > It seems that comman requires the use of an internet connection. The reason I > wanted to install ndiswrapper was that the NIC in the computer in question is > an unsupported wireless card. Anyway, I found an ethernet card and a very > long ethernet cable for that machine and ran the command as you said. > > It seems to have installed a different version of the kernel sources than the > one I wanted, 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4. I don't think it would be safe to just > symlink 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686 to that, would it? Do I have to now recompile > the kernel? how do I do that? > > cheers, > Tim > As has already been said, kernel sources are not needed. If you have installed the kernel sources for the 2.6.11-1.1369 kernel you should remove it before doing any builds for the 2.6.11-1.1398 kernel. use "yum install kernel-devel" which will install all the kernel headers, then compile ndiswrapper using the instructions you have already been given and it will work. > > On Tuesday 19 July 2005 05:21, Tony Nelson wrote: > > At 12:28 AM +1000 7/19/05, Benham Family wrote: > > >Apparently it expects kernel sources in > > >/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686, but the FC4 install didn't put > > > them there. ... > > > > How about this? > > > > # yum install kernel-devel > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> >
