ndiswrapper fails

[Dennis Veatch]

On Friday 01 October 2010 5:14:13 pm marco van der grient wrote:
> On 10/01/2010 10:58 PM, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > 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 success.
> >> 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.
> 
> Installing the firmware the proper way, by the way of "lin
> linux-firmware" did the trick for me!
> Wlan0 is up now.
> Ndiswrapper fails tough.
> _______________________________________________

Good to hear. With the linux-firmware module we may not have a need for 
ndiswrapper but the would take to research to determine.

-- 
Dennis `stumbles` Veatch