Netgear WN311B with NDISwrapper

[homie144]

I am using the Netgear WN311B PCI wireless device, but that isn't currently the problem. The problem is that I cant even get NDISwrapper installed! I have the source tar.gz for NDISwrapper 1.47. In terminal I type "tar -xzvf /home/matt/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.47.tar.gz", and everything works. Then i "cd" to ndiswrapper-1.47, so far so good. I type "sudo make uninstall", type in the password, and it works. Then it starts going wrong. Here is what happened.



matt@sabayonx86 ~/ndiswrapper-1.47 $ make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/matt/ndiswrapper-1.47/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.20-sabayon-r3/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/ndiswrapper-1.47/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Then...


matt@sabayonx86 ~/ndiswrapper-1.47 $ sudo make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/matt/ndiswrapper-1.47/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.20-sabayon-r3/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/ndiswrapper-1.47/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2
matt@sabayonx86 ~/ndiswrapper-1.47 $


I have no idea what any of this means so any help would be appreciated. When I do finnaly get it installed, I'm not sure if it work from there because this is wireless N with WPA2-PSK(AES) security.

[WarraWarra]

Any reason why you do not just use ?
# emerge ndiswrapper
and then it does pritty much everything for you. except add the driver .inf

[homie144]

Any reason why you do not just use ?
# emerge ndiswrapper
and then it does pritty much everything for you. except add the driver .inf

I tried that and nothing happened. Maybe it is because I am using a mini-edition?

[Raqua]

Nothing happened ?

Are you sure you wrote that to console being logged in as root ? I doubt it did completelly nothing.

btw. It has nothing to do with mini edition, portage works on all editions.

[homie144]

Sorry I'm an idiot. I'm going to try that as root now.

[homie144]

OK. I did the emerge command and it did this:


sabayonx86 matt # emerge ndiswrapper
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.39 to /
>>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/n ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefor ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving ovh.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcef ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving jaist.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefo ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving mesh.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sour ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving easynews.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefo ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving nchc.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefo ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving kent.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/source ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving switch.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefo ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving osdn.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sour ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/source ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving heanet.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefo ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
>>> Downloading 'http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
--12:07:57-- http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc ... .39.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'
Resolving surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known.
!!! Couldn't download 'ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz'. Aborting.


So then I went and manually got ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz and placed it in /usr/portage/distfiles, then I did emerge again:



sabayonx86 matt # emerge ndiswrapper
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.39 to /
* ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz MD5 ... [ ok ]
* ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz RMD160 ... [ ok ]
* ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz SHA1 ... [ ok ]
* ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz SHA256 ... [ ok ]
* ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz size ... [ ok ]
* checking ebuild checksums ... [ ok ]
* checking auxfile checksums ... [ ok ]
* checking miscfile checksums ... [ ok ]
* checking ndiswrapper-1.39.tar.gz ... [ ok ]
* See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml for a list of supported kernels.

* Determining the location of the kernel source code
* Unable to find kernel sources at /usr/src/linux
* This package requires Linux sources.
* Please make sure that /usr/src/linux points at your running kernel,
* (or the kernel you wish to build against).
* Alternatively, set the KERNEL_DIR environment variable to the kernel sources location

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.39 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1630: Called dyn_setup
ebuild.sh, line 702: Called qa_call 'pkg_setup'
ebuild.sh, line 38: Called pkg_setup
ndiswrapper-1.39.ebuild, line 33: Called linux-mod_pkg_setup
linux-mod.eclass, line 458: Called linux-info_pkg_setup
linux-info.eclass, line 554: Called die

!!! Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.39/temp/build.log'.

!!! This ebuild is from an overlay: '/usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon'



Im not sure if it worked or not.

[homie144]

Another thing. If someone does figure it out would I have to search for and delete the files created by this half install type thing?

[homie144]

UH OH. I found out that the mini editions don't come with kernel sources. What do I do now?

[mdmarmer]

To add kernel sources in mini 3.3

layman -S && emerge --sync
USE="symlink" emerge =sabayon-sources-2.6.20-r3
zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/config

Mike

[homie144]

I just tried that and it wont work. Now I'm wondering if its even possible to emerge ndiswrapper. I forgot to mention that I have no internet connection in linux.