Ndiswrapper Idioicy - Help!
I have the 6/01 (latest) release of knoppix and I installed it to my laptop. Ndiswrapper worked fine but I stupidly said, "Hey, I'll upgrade." I downloaded the latest version of ndiswrapper and what do you know, it didn't compile. It was too late to reverse what I had done. I accidentally deleted ndiswrapper. Since then I've tried several different versions of ndiswrapper with no success. They all errored out when I tried to compile them. I even tried booting another system with the same knoppix CD and I taking out the ndiswrapper.ko driver file in /lib/modules/2.6.17/misc and putting it in my other computer. I get 'Invalid Arguement' when I 'modprobe ndiswrapper'. I wanted to try copying all ndiswrapper related files to my other computer, but I don't know all the paths. If you think this is a good idea, please post where they all are. If you have a better idea, :P please tell me.
Thanks so much,
AK
Re: Ndiswrapper Idioicy - Help!
Quote:
Originally Posted by pheadxdll
I have the 6/01 (latest) release of knoppix and I installed it to my laptop. Ndiswrapper worked fine but I stupidly said, "Hey, I'll upgrade." I downloaded the latest version of ndiswrapper and what do you know, it didn't compile. It was too late to reverse what I had done. I accidentally deleted ndiswrapper. Since then I've tried several different versions of ndiswrapper with no success. They all errored out when I tried to compile them. I even tried booting another system with the same knoppix CD and I taking out the ndiswrapper.ko driver file in /lib/modules/2.6.17/misc and putting it in my other computer. I get 'Invalid Arguement' when I 'modprobe ndiswrapper'. I wanted to try copying all ndiswrapper related files to my other computer, but I don't know all the paths. If you think this is a good idea, please post where they all are. If you have a better idea, :P please tell me.
I'm not sure if that is a good idea, but you can use these commands to get those paths:
First, start that Knoppix CD, and list all ndiswrapper-related packages which are installed:
Code:
knoppix@0[knoppix]$ dpkg -l '*ndiswrapper*' | grep '^i'
ii knoppix-ndiswrapper 0.1-3 NdisWrapper GUI for KNOPPIX
ii ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12 1.1rc3-1 Linux kernel module for NdisWrapper for 2.6.
ii ndiswrapper-utils 1.1rc3-1 User space tools for ndiswrapper
knoppix@0[knoppix]$
For Knoppix 4.0.2 CD, I have 3 packages here: knoppix-ndiswrapper, ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12 and ndiswrapper-utils.
Then list all files which were installed by those packages:
Code:
knoppix@0[knoppix]$ dpkg -L knoppix-ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12 ndiswrapper-utils
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper.sh
/usr/share
/usr/share/applnk
/usr/share/applnk/Knoppix
/usr/share/applnk/Knoppix/Net
/usr/share/applnk/Knoppix/Net/knoppix-ndiswrapper.desktop
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/knoppix-ndiswrapper
/usr/share/doc/knoppix-ndiswrapper/copyright
/usr/share/doc/knoppix-ndiswrapper/changelog.Debian.gz
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/README
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/copyright
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/changelog.Debian.gz
/lib
/lib/modules
/lib/modules/2.6.12
/lib/modules/2.6.12/misc
/lib/modules/2.6.12/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/copyright
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/ndiswrapper.8.gz
package diverts others to: /usr/share/man/man8/ndiswrapper.8.gz.distrib
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-buginfo
/sbin
/sbin/loadndisdriver
then just ignore the directories in that list to get the list of actual files. In my case there are these files in the above list:
Code:
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper.sh
/usr/share/applnk/Knoppix/Net/knoppix-ndiswrapper.desktop
/usr/share/doc/knoppix-ndiswrapper/copyright
/usr/share/doc/knoppix-ndiswrapper/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/README
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/copyright
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.12/changelog.Debian.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.12/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/copyright
/usr/share/doc/ndiswrapper-utils/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ndiswrapper.8.gz
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper
/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-buginfo
/sbin/loadndisdriver
(Note: In some cases there can be some installed files which are not in this list, but quite often you get all installed files in this way)
