On Saturday 17 September 2005 11:04 pm, H S wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, Would you mind too much posting the list in plain text as opposed to HTML. > > I'm going to start off by saying, I am a NEWBIE to Debian/Linux. So please > bare with me. Sorry, but this is too funny... "bare" is to get naked and "bear" is to share a burden in this context. ;-)
> My distro btw is the unofficial sarge release of Debian 3.1 > 64-bit for AMD64. Kernel version: 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 > > I've been wanting to install debian on my R3230CA laptop for a two week and > nothing seems to be going right at all. > > I want to get my wireless internet working first so I can get my apt-get > working first. > > I've been following the instructions given here: > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation > > So far I've installed ndiswrapper and the 64-bit broadcom drivers. > > So when I type: > > ndiswrapper -l > > I get: > > Installed ndis drivers: > netbc564 driver present, hardware present > > OK cool. > > But when I try to load the module with: > > modprobe ndiswrapper > > I get: > > ndiswrapper: version magic '2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 gcc-3.3' should be > '2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 gcc-3.4 FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper > (/lib/modules/2.6.8-11-amd64-k8/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format > > > Can anyone help me make sense of this? I really do want to be a permanent > linux user, but this is just really driving me nuts. It looks like you're using binary packages as opposed to compiling, which is okay, but it appears it's complaining about an ABI problem. I thought this type of error was not supposed to happen with gcc 3.x. You can see by the error that the kernel version matches and the compiler doesn't and it doesn't like it. I would try either compiling or making sure I had binaries that were compatible. > P.S. Without my wireless I have absolutely no way to connect to the > internet because I think something is wrong with my NIC card physically. So > I can't use apt-get unless the packages are on the 2 DVD's. Did you try pinging your NIC or booting windows and testing it? -- Eric Laffoon Project Lead - kdewebdev module _______________________________________________ Linuxr3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.kdewebdev.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
