MadKAT Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 Hi, I just installed MDK 10.1 Community on an HP Pavilion zx5000 notebook which has a Broadcom 94306 wireless. I installed ndiswrapper included in the distro, which installed fine. And the I installed the Windows driver using ndiswrapper which was also successful. So now I have: [root@kochanski]# ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 hardware present Now, the next step according to the ndiswrapper site is to modprobe ndiswrapper, but the module can't be found! [root@kochanski]# modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. I don't know what to do from here. Can anybody help? MadKAT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shakes Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 what is in /etc/ndiswrapper directory? There should be a sub-directory and driver files in that. Are they there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devman Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 (edited) what is in /etc/ndiswrapper directory? There should be a sub-directory and driver files in that. Are they there? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hai.. I have the same problem. An yes the driver are in the sub-directory. thx for help. Edited November 25, 2004 by devman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 Hi, (and welcome to the board) it'll be helpfull if you can let us know the contents of the ndiswrapper rpm rpm -qa | grep -i ndiswrapper from a terminal should return the package name, then rpm -ql nameofpackage will list all the files supplied by the package. If you paste the list of files here (hopefully not too big :) ) we can try and spot any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devman Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 (edited) oh, thx ok, what he give me back after the > rpm -ql ..... /etc/ndiswrapper /sbin/loadndisdriver /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-buginfo /usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-0.11 /usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-0.11/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-0.11/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-0.11/INSTALL /usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-0.11/README So i think that can not be all :unsure: i work with Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official thx. for feedback Edited November 25, 2004 by devman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 modprobe tends to look in /lib/modules/ - thats why it can't find the module. I would try running /sbin/loadndiswrapper or try reading /usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-0.11/README for more info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 ndiswrapper requires a module. Through some mistake the module hasnt been included in the package. Try and find an updated package in urpmi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 I had the same problem with that rpm with mdk10.1. To make a long story short, it simply doesn't work. Uninstall it and delete your /etc/ndiswrapper directory. Install your kernel source and get the ndiswrapper tarball and install from that: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ It compiled and installed in seconds w/o a hitch and worked perfectly; I have the same wireless card by the way. That rpm was compiled for a different kernel(mdk10) and won't work on mdk10.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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