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Hi there,

 

I have a Dell Inspiron 8600, loaded with Mandy 10 Official, and im trying to get the Intell 2200 BG Wireless card working.

 

I have managed to uninstall the old version of ndiswrapper that was installed by default (0.4), and installed the rpm of ndiswrapper 0.9 for Mandy 10.

 

It installed fine, i have loaded the inf file for my card w22n51.inf, and when i run

 

ndiswrapper -l

 

it reports W22n51 hardware present.

 

i then modprobe ndiswrapper, and it doesnt report any errors.

 

when i run dmesg though, it gives no referece to wlan at all and at the bottom it says

 

ndiswrapper 0.4 loaded.

 

 

When i run iwconfig, it reports no extensions being present.

 

Where can i go from here? Is the wrong version of ndiswrapper loaded even though i uninstalled the older version before installing the new?

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I have a suspicion that the problem is due to the version of ndiswrapper so im trying to compile the 0.11 version from source.

 

when i go

 

make install

 

i get this:

 

make -C driver install

make[1]: Entering directory `/incoming/ndis/ndiswrapper-0.11/driver'

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/build SUBDIRS=/incoming/ndis/ndiswrapper-0.11/driver \

NDISWRAPPER_VERSION=0.11 \

EXTRA_VERSION= modules

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/build: No such file or directory. Stop.

make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directorymake[1]: *** [default] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/incoming/ndis/ndiswrapper-0.11/driver'

make: *** [install] Error 2

 

 

how do i get around this issue?

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Ive just realised that when i

 

uname -r

 

it says my kernel version is 2.6.3-7mdk

 

but when i go to /usr/src/linux my kernel folder is called

 

linux-2.6.3-19.mdk

 

 

is this causing the problem. and if so how do i make them match?

 

hmmmmm.

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Thanks guys.

 

Reloaded from the install discs back to kernel 2.6.3-7, uninstalled ndiswrapper .4, and compiled .11. The driver appeared right away in Dmesg, and ive now got it working.

 

Cheers!

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hello

i have a similar problem to adventurepants - posted on 12 oct 2004.

i have ibm r50 with intel wireless 2200 bg. i use mandrake 10.1

i currently have ndiswrapper 0.8 installed.

i got the ipw2200 driver but when i issue make i get the message:

 

[root@localhost ipw2200-0.10]# make

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/ipw2200-0.10 MODVERDIR=/tmp/ipw2200-0.10

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build: No such file or directory. Stop.

make: *** [modules] Error 2

 

should i install ndiswrapper 0.11 instead?

what shall i do?

 

i am lost

any help will be appreciated

 

:angry:

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