[ATrpms-users] Possibly a minor bug in ndiswrapper?

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:42:39AM -0500, hondaman wrote:
> Youre right!  depmod was the single dumb step i forgot.  Thanks again Axel.

Usually this happens automatically by the kmdl. :/

If you are bored, you can remove it again, run depmod, so the system
forgets it and reinstall it. It should call depmod while installing,
so it would be immediately available. If not, there's a bug somewhere.

You can check this with rpm -q --scripts ndiswrapper-kmdl-`uname -r`


> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:19:52AM -0500, hondaman wrote:
> >   
> >> ndiswrapper.ko installs itself into /lib/modules/<kernel ver>/updates
> >>
> >> When you try and install the module via modprobe, it fails to find 
> >> ndiswrapper.  You hafta install it the old school way by pointing insmod 
> >> explicitly to that path.
> >>
> >> fc5 with 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5
> >>     
> >
> > something else must be amiss in your setup. All kmdls live under
> > /updates and that's even the preferred location.
> >
> > Try running depmod -ae and grep /lib/modules/<uname -r>/modules.dep
> > for ndiswrapper modules.
> >
> > Most likely you installed for the wrong kernel? Does uname -r really
> > map to the argument <uname -r> above? If that the case, then remmeber
> > to always use
> >
> > <depsolver> install foo foo-kmdl-`uname -r`
> >
> > HTH
> >   
> 
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