ndiswrapper fails

[Dennis Veatch]

On Friday 01 October 2010 4:48:35 pm marco van der grient wrote:
> On 10/01/2010 04:36 PM, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > On Friday 01 October 2010 9:51:22 am marco van der grient wrote:
> >> Already build a new kernel with reboot. So that does not solved the
> >> "problem". Any toughts?
> >> 
> >> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 08:48 +0200, Duncan Gibson wrote:
> >>>> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.56/driver'
> >>>> Makefile:34: *** Cannot find kernel version in /lib/modules/build, is
> >>>> it configured?.  Stop.
> >>> 
> >>> Did you already build a new kernel, or are you still using the
> >>> pre-configured one from the ISO?  Does running "lin linux-2.6"
> >>> first (with reboot?) solve the problem?
> >>> 
> >>> D.
> > 
> > I don't think you don't really need the ndiswrapper.  What driver/drivers
> > are you trying to load?
> 
> I try to load the rt2860sta (rt2800), but a request for firmware is
> failing to load wlan0.
> I have tried to put RT2860STA.dat in it's place: /lib/firmware/
> No succes.
> Again, any thoughts on ndiswrapper or my firmware error?
> 
> _______________________________________________


Have you tried the rt2860 in the latest kernel staging area along with `lin 
linux-firmware`? The later has the rt286.bin.


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Dennis `stumbles` Veatch