Alan, On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Alan J. Flavell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Alan J. Flavell wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > > Latest ndiswrapper doesn't build anymore on SL3. > > > > I see now that they had a whole string of releases after 1.9, so > > maybe I should try afresh and report any successes (or failures...). > > As I was just re-creating SL3.0.5 on the replacement HD of a laptop > whose old disk had died, I've been able to look at the later releases > since sending that earlier mail. > > It seems to me that ndiswrapper 1.14 is the last version which builds > without trouble with SL3.0.5. I've installed it and it appears to be > working. > > version 1.15 throws an error during the build. > > All later stable versions, also the current 1.19rc2, throw rather more > errors during the build. > > I haven't investigated the errors at all. > > The INSTALL file has been saying, even since version 1.9 (I haven't > checked earlier) that a kernel version of at least 2.4.26 is required. > However, as I say, up to and including version 1.14 it seems to work > well with the SL3.0.5 kernel (I was using 2.4.21-40.EL). Can you provide the ndiswrapper 1.14 rpm and srpm. We will put them in contrib. We have already put ndiswrapper into the SL4.3 release. -Connie Sieh > > I cannot speak personally for SMP configurations. > > > At any rate, it's an available option, and anyone who can't find > > working native support for their wireless could find it useful. > > But only really for SL3.* (2.4.* kernels), as we previously discussed. > > all the best >