Oh, Help! Deleted ndiswrapper module! [solved]

[Havin_it]

Remember kids, don't drink and wifi.

 

I was just getting to the stage of cockiness with my PCMCIA, ndiswrapper et al.

Then I had to wipe my laptop and reinstall Mandy 10.1OE - no problem, right?

 

Except for some reason, now ndiswrapper ain't playing ball. The card sees the network (checked 'iwlist wlan0 scanning') but I can't set the ESSID to connect. (This had happened sporadically before, but I thought I had it cracked by going DHCP and ONBOOT.)

 

So I decide to do the whole rigmarole of removing /lib/modules/2.6.8-12/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper

... except I really do RM it, not back it up.

 

Long ago (10.0), I installed ndiswrapper from source, but my card has thus far just worked with 10.1 so I've just been using RPM ndiswrapper 0.9.1.

 

Have I b0rked it? Does the source ndiswrapper actually rebuild this module for me, or do I have to go beggin' for a replacement?

Edited February 22, 2005 by Havin_it

[devries]

No need to go begging: the rpm or building from source should get you back the module :)

[Havin_it]

Ah... I think I get why that didn't happen now. I don't have the symlink to the kernel-source.

 

/slaps self

 

Will go and sort that out, then see if that gets me connected.

[Havin_it]

...furthermore, I realised that after a furious evening of URPMI-ing, I had a mis-matched kernel and source - probably doesn't help.

 

I just decided to build v1.0 from source in the end, and now everything's working nicely. Phew! Pass the Scotch.