Boris Glawe wrote:
Hi,
has anybody successfully installed the freshrpm's dkms-ndiswrapper package?
The installation itself is not the problem, but the kernel module
compilation fails.
The kernel modules was usually compiled and properly installed with the
execution of "/etc/init.d/dkms start". This command still does not show
any error messages, but after returning after some seconds of operation,
there's no kernel module in /lib/modules/`uname -r` which is confirmed
by modprobe : "FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."
Nobody's reporting any problems?! How are you using ndiswrapper WLAN
adapters with F8 and 2.6.24.x kernels?
Thanks and greets
Boris
IIRC (and I've been on vacation, so my brain hasn't caught up yet),
Linus himself got involved with the NDISwrapper code being GPL'd. He
put the kibosh on exporting the symbols needed to load it since in his
mind it CAN'T be GPL if it loads non-GPL binaries. IANAL, so take that
how you will. The thread was on Slashdot a couple weeks ago. It's my
understanding that ndiswrapper is broken in the .24 kernels and hasn't
been fixed yet.
Granted, it's also my understanding the new WIFI stack is supposed to
have much better support for cards in .24, but I can't say for certain yet.
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