Paul Howarth wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
Gerry Tool wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
It seems to me I read that yum provides ndiswrapper but I have met
with
no success. I first tried Yumex
since it lists available RPM's. Nothing there either.
This is a new FC-5 installation and perhaps not configured for the
required repositories?
I did download a tarred" copy which I can install if there's no RPM.
This is part of an effort to install a Linksys WMP54G "wireless"
adapter.
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia
[root@gstpc-fc4 ~]# yum list ndiswrapper*
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Available Packages
ndiswrapper.i386 1.10-2.lvn5 livna
It is in the livna repository, so install/enable that repo and you
will be able to install it from rpm. I installed it both ways on a
laptop trying a similar thing and it worked the same either way, but
I think it is good to use an rpm whenever possible.
Gerry
I am going from bad to worse! I can't "make" ndiswrapper from the
tar because it wants "2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build" which I don't seem to
have and/or can't find.
Do you have the kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 package installed?
I do now thank you. I did two installations from this FC5 DVD one
network which worked as expected and this one with the DVD in the CDROM
drive, both turned out differently. This one offered me no opportunity
to install applications such as MySql and KDE. I usually install Gnome
and KDE but prefer to use XFCE. And there was only a root user when I
finished! I thought I'd done something wrong and re-installed with the
same result?
Neither yum nor yumex will work with Livna, can't find the mirrors
for whatever reason.
Did you follow the livna installation instructions at
http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html ?
Ok, that was the pointer I needed.
It would be a good idea to boot with the errata kernel package if
you're trying to install non-GPL kernel modules - see the bottom of
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC5Common
Paul.
Thanks much BobG
