Urza9814 Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Ok, so I'm trying to install Mandriva 2008.1 on a brand new Dell Vostro laptop with the Dell 1395 wifi card. I know, shoulda gone with an intel wireless card, but that would have been $200 more, because I would have had to buy an Inspiron. So, anyways, it wouldn't install through mcc, kept throwing the "cannot find ndiswrapper interface" error. So, according to Google, I should try compiling it from source. Well, I downloaded the latest version, completely removed my old ndiswrapper, installed the kernel sources, but when I run make I get: make -C driver make[1]: Entering directory '/home/urza9814/ndiswrapper-1.52/driver' make[1]: *** /.config: Is a directory. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/urza9814/ndiswrapper-1.52/driver' make: *** [all] Error 2 Now, I've googled that /.config is a directory error, along with 'ndiswrapper', and I got exactly one result. And it's in Italian. So...anyone have any solutions in English? heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 I assume that you have tried installing it through urpmi? A quick check of the 2008.1 official main repo shows that exact version of the ndiswrapper rpm. If you are unable to do that (network connection, or whatever), you could always download it on another machine, burn it to a disc and transfer it over to your Dell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 yea, I've tried through URPMI. Gives me the usual error of 'module not found' when I try to modprobe it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 (edited) There's a tool in Mandriva's control center for setting up NDISWRAPPER, you just do it through the normal networking and select the right options IIRC (this will take care of modprobing and everything). I would go this route as Mandriva may have some weird way of doing things or you may be missing a step (I remember there being extra steps to setting up ndiswrapper). With a distribution like Mandriva it's almost always best to use the tools provided. (if you DID use this tool, and thats where you got the "could not find module" error, then ignore me ;) ) Edited May 15, 2008 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 yea, I did use that tool. So, anyways, it wouldn't install through mcc, kept throwing the "cannot find ndiswrapper interface" error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 I probably should have read the original post more carefully... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 heh, whatever, it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Try following this: http://linuxfornewbies.org/forum/index.php/topic,3.0.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 (edited) Ok, so following that...I get the error 'No .config found in , please set KBUILD to configured kernel.' So, I did. And the error still pops up. Running 'ls -a $KBUILD' even shows a .config. Tried running these commands as both user and root, and yes, I reset KBUILD each time. Oh, and I also reformatted and reinstalled Mandriva before doing this to ensure nothing I'd been messing with before could interfere. Edited May 16, 2008 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted May 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Ok, now I feel stupid. I failed to connect the fact that my laptop came with Vista, therefore the drivers in C:\Drivers are Vista drivers. So that's why the RPM failed. Of course, that still doesn't explain why I can't build from source...but I suppose that's a moot point now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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