On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:54 -0800, Richard Burkhart wrote: > I'm trying to learn the arcane art of kernel compiles ... my goal is to > get ndiswrapper compiled as a module, operational, and driving a linksys > wireless card.
I'm sure that others will give you advice on how to compile the kernel. As Pete said, it's not really arcane at all. I'd also suggest that you do it manually, rather than using dpkg or some other package system to do it for you. There are various docs around on how to do this. I thought you would like to know that I'm using a broadcom-based linksys wifi card with my Fedora Core 3 system under ndiswrapper with a great deal of success (though it took a while to get it working in the first place, and there is a long story about the evil UC bookshop who sold me the bloody thing and wouldn't let me return it when I found it doesn't easily work under linux). Can I ask why you need to recompile the kernel? You should be able to install ndiswrapper without recompiling the kernel - though you need to have a set of configured kernel headers on your system (and that usually means having the kernel source). There is an exception to this, which is that ndis drivers are fussy about kernel configuration (in particular the 4K stack option). So, you should only need to recompile the kernel if you need to change the kernel configuration. There are other gotchas as well, but they can wait until you've got ndiswrapper compiled. -- Josh Parsons Philosophy Department 1238 Social Sciences and Humanities Bldg. University of California Davis, CA 95616-8673 USA Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
