ndiswrapper not in repos anymore?

karol · 2011-06-17 08:42:03

ndiswrapper-utils are now available in the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49935

skodela · 2011-06-17 14:08:02

Hi folks

I don't know why they decided to drop ndiswrapper. I could not get it to work from AUR. I did the following to make the darn thing compile. YMMV. Hope they will reinclude the ndiswrapper to archives soon.

1. Get clean source of 1.56 from sourceforge.
2. patch -p0 < ../ndiswrapper-suse.patch
3. patch -p0 < ../ndiswrapper-1.56-2.6.35.patch
4. In driver/wrapndis.c move all #include <linux/...> to the top of the include lists. Just re-order them.
5. Copy smp_lock.h to /usr/src/linux.../include/linux/
6. Add #include <linux/smp_lock.h> to driver/loader.c
7. make and make install

It puts the module in the /lib/modules/misc. Try insmod with full path after a depmod -a.

Get the first two patches from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549190&page=8

smp_lock.h is also available on the net, eventhough you may end up having to copy/save and remove line numbers from the html formatted file. If I can find a way to load the files here I will.

Good luck
Sree

karol · 2011-06-17 14:25:57

skodela wrote:

I could not get it to work from AUR.

What went wrong? Have you posted about your problems on the AUR page of that package?

skodela · 2011-06-17 14:50:58

karol wrote:

skodela wrote:
I could not get it to work from AUR.
What went wrong? Have you posted about your problems on the AUR page of that package?

Hi Karol

I did not report it. When I tried using yaourt, I got some error about ndiswrapper-utils being a missing dependency. Once I fished out and installed that from arch rollback machine, yaourt progressed further but then failed with en error about IOCTLs. That is when I wandered over and found the above process. After I managed to compile and put together the message above I found it already written in ubuntu forums!

Thanks

karol · 2011-06-17 14:53:32

skodela wrote:

karol wrote:
skodela wrote:
I could not get it to work from AUR.
What went wrong? Have you posted about your problems on the AUR page of that package?
Hi Karol
I did not report it. When I tried using yaourt, I got some error about ndiswrapper-utils being a missing dependency.

That's what I thought - please read this https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24749
It should work now.

Next time, please investigate what went wrong.

skodela · 2011-06-18 00:09:00

karol wrote:

skodela wrote:
karol wrote:
What went wrong? Have you posted about your problems on the AUR page of that package?
Hi Karol
I did not report it. When I tried using yaourt, I got some error about ndiswrapper-utils being a missing dependency.
That's what I thought - please read this https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24749
It should work now.
Next time, please investigate what went wrong.

Even after installing the ndiswrapper-utils from old package, it still complained about ioctls, __attribute__ errors, missing lock_kernel and unlock_kernel and so on. This went on until I did what I enumerated in the original post. So AUR somehow did not help and it did not really help that I was booting in to puppy linux to get information and packages and then boot in to ARCH to tru compiling and so on.

I hope we don't get anymore surprise package drops like this. I ended up installing puppy just for sake of having access to internet on the laptop until this is sorted out.

karol wrote:

Next time, please investigate what went wrong.

Sure!

speps · 2011-06-18 00:59:28

Hi guys, I'm the current ndiswrapper maintainer on AUR.
I found this discussion about 10 minutes after my new buildscript upload on AUR (pkgrel=11).
To workaround the blacklisted ndsiwrapper-utils, I merged ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-utils into a single package.
Btw, I see Andrea has enabled again ndsiwrapper-utils on AUR, and I just adopted it.
Now, we have two choices:
leave packages merged && request a deletion for ndiswrapper-utils || split again
My vote goes to the first one, cause it would be simpler to maintain and overall
I do not find any valid reason not related to moral rigidity for splitting them.
Anyway, someone could point a reasonable cause for doing it.
Votes?

Rupp · 2011-06-18 01:10:00

I vote for keeping them merged.

trusktr · 2011-06-20 23:00:46

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Ndiswrapper was used for drivers for network/wireless chipsets that didn't have native linux versions, but how many of those are left ?
example : The Broadcom chipsets are now supported in kernel since 2.6.37

Not all broadcom chips are supported, only *most* of them. eheh

trusktr · 2011-06-20 23:11:33

@speps I vote to keep them merged!

Kephaleon · 2011-06-21 18:35:00

I vote for merger, too.

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#26 2011-06-17 08:42:03

Re: ndiswrapper not in repos anymore?

#27 2011-06-17 14:08:02

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#29 2011-06-17 14:50:58

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#30 2011-06-17 14:53:32

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#31 2011-06-18 00:09:00

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#33 2011-06-18 01:10:00

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#34 2011-06-20 23:00:46

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#35 2011-06-20 23:11:33

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