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desertViking

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 170

Cannot build NDISWRAPPER

Hi,

I upgraded my system about 10 days ago, about the time that the new kernel went from testing to current.  At the time, I didn't reboot, and ndiswrapper was fine.

Having some difficulties today so I rebooted the system.  Ndisrapper won't probe (invalid ndiswrapper.ko).  I've recompiled the tool several times, but always with the same result.

I went ahead and downloade 1.7 source, and that didn't help. 

In read in another thread that there was a mismatch between the kernel and the gcc compiler that was causing this difficulty.  I suppose that if I could connect to the network, I could pacman upgrade and make some progress.

Unfortunately, this is a wireless desktop system that does not have a hard wire access.  What I can do is download onto a USB device what I need and take it to the other computer.

I did this in fact with the ndiswrapper binaries in "extra".  I ran pacman -A to install the package from the local hard drive, but it did not install a .ko file into the kernel directory.

I'm at a loss as to where to go next.  Please, any advice you could offer would be welcome.

Regards,

desertViking

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desertViking

Member

From: Arizona

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 170

Re: Cannot build NDISWRAPPER

I solved this, but it was certainly a pain.  I ended up disconnecting the PC from its workstation location, and schelping it to a hardwire.  Ended up doing 2 out of 3 falls with the upgrade of xorg before I could continue.

I downgraded the gcc compiler to the one in current which matched the kernel, and I was able to build ndiswrapper and the nvidia drivers.

I do have one question, though.  I removed the compiler

pacman -R gcc

and commented out the testing repository, and used pacman to install gcc from current.  I then added the testing repository back in to pacman.conf.  Now, though, whenever I upgrade I must add

pacman -Syu --ignore gcc

to avoid picking up the mismatched compiler.

Is there a more appropriate method?

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