Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] Loading ndiswrapper
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From: Nelson, J. W, C. 1. S. <jer...@ca...> - 2005-01-28 06:35:05
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It would REALLY be nice if instructions to load ndiswrapper were put into english. make distclean This doesn't work I don't know wher to put the tar ball. I don't have ndiswrapper, so there is nothing to uninstall. I put the tar ball in a directory called /NDISWrapper I don't know SHIT about the kernel, so if it involves the kernel, I need EXACT step-by-step intructions. I don't even know how to load regular programs in Linux, let alone difficult things like ndswrapper. Please HELP. Jerry Nelson |
From: Georg S. <dan...@gm...> - 2005-01-28 12:03:56
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Nelson, Jerry W, Contractor 146CF, SCB wrote: > It would REALLY be nice if instructions to load ndiswrapper were put into > english. > > make distclean This doesn't work > > I don't know wher to put the tar ball. > > I don't have ndiswrapper, so there is nothing to uninstall. > > I put the tar ball in a directory called /NDISWrapper > > I don't know SHIT about the kernel, so if it involves the kernel, I need > EXACT step-by-step intructions. > > I don't even know how to load regular programs in Linux, let alone difficult > things like ndswrapper. hey, what do you think is this all here? if everyone would come and say that he wants a simple and newbie-friendly step-by-step instruction we would just help these people to install ndiswrapper cause they are too lazy to search google or something else. If you want to use linux you have to search docu/howtos/etc, just asking why something doesn't work as expected is a bit too less guy. if it is really too much work for you to use linux then you shouldn't use it, don't you think so? why did you install it? just to be cool or what? regards |
From: Daniel Caujolle-B. <da...@na...> - 2005-01-28 12:26:09
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Nelson, Jerry W, Contractor 146CF, SCB wrote: >> It would REALLY be nice if instructions to load ndiswrapper were put >> into >> english. >> >> make distclean This doesn't work >> >> I don't know wher to put the tar ball. >> >> I don't have ndiswrapper, so there is nothing to uninstall. >> >> I put the tar ball in a directory called /NDISWrapper >> >> I don't know SHIT about the kernel, so if it involves the kernel, I ne= ed >> EXACT step-by-step intructions. >> >> I don't even know how to load regular programs in Linux, let alone >> difficult >> things like ndswrapper. > > hey, what do you think is this all here? if everyone would come and say > that he wants a simple and newbie-friendly step-by-step instruction we > would just help these people to install ndiswrapper cause they are too > lazy to search google or something else. If you want to use linux you > have to search docu/howtos/etc, just asking why something doesn't work > as expected is a bit too less guy. if it is really too much work for yo= u > to use linux then you shouldn't use it, don't you think so? why did you > install it? just to be cool or what? Agreed. You know, such project are made by *volunteers*, in their free time. Same thing about contributors (from mailing list, translators, documentation maintiners, etc). So if you have question(s), ask people *gently*, politly, don't write words in upcase, which mean you're screaming. Also, you want tips/help, so first, imagine people don't know anything about: - your user level skill, - your sysadmin level skill, - your hardware, - your installed distro, - ... Also think about packaged version of ndiswrapper, if you're clueless abou= t compilation and such "advanced" stuff, a pre-build package is recommended= . Cheers. - -- 73's de Daniel "Der Schreckliche", F1RMB. -=3D- Daniel Caujolle-Bert -=3D- da...@na... = -=3D- -=3D- http://naboo.homelinux.org -=3D- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+i9XQiGKQOXKzgkRAlbwAJ48RXBqEYAMom8fMwj+m3HOxgyEAACeOB8o QiKf7gs3lZs391C3LMxaS98=3D =3DS1OI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: <az...@se...> - 2005-01-28 21:04:46
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Caujolle-Bert wrote: | You know, such project are made by *volunteers*, in their free time. | Same thing about contributors (from mailing list, translators, | documentation maintiners, etc). So if you have question(s), ask people | *gently*, politly, don't write words in upcase, which mean you're | screaming. I fully aggree on this. Wee don't get payed to help, then it's up to us to help or not. I don't like to help people that aint thankful about getting help and specaly not people yelling about getting help. | Also think about packaged version of ndiswrapper, if you're clueless about | compilation and such "advanced" stuff, a pre-build package is recommended. Or, why not ask the person that installed Linux on this comp. I guess he didn't install it himself ;-) Btw, Giri and all of you guys: Keep up the good work and don't care about silly people that don't read any thing before yelling ;-) Just my 2 cent :-) Regards, - -- ~ .''`. Torbjörn Svensson, azoff (at) se (dot) linux (dot) org ~ : :' : 7EB9 2DC5 61AE DAB5 7099 BAC6 798E E39A DBDB 0CFD ~ `. `' http://azoff.homeip.net | http://azoff.tty0.org ~ `-- http://www.se.linux.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB+qkCeY7jmtvbDP0RAnTYAKCIN91bwhHfqq/AtIJgvWjXE1rHywCePjnJ xx/S3mL2fSHaLw5BoJbZwC0= =ntVt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: James S. <Sha...@ea...> - 2005-01-28 12:06:42
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> It would REALLY be nice if instructions to load ndiswrapper were put into > english. > > make distclean This doesn't work which english? en_GB.UTF-8? en_US.UTF-8? http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Installation?PHPSESSID=dd754d39dd54f66e41e2dbe14ee96785 or as linked to from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ is the url http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Installation > I don't know wher to put the tar ball. Anywhere you want. Preferebly somewhere you have permissions to read/write/execute from. But try to stay away from /dev/ and /proc/. In your home path, or /usr/src/ seems to be a normal enough place. > I don't have ndiswrapper, so there is nothing to uninstall. According to the install instructions, you do NOT need to run make distclean in this circumstance. > I put the tar ball in a directory called /NDISWrapper > > I don't know SHIT about the kernel, so if it involves the kernel, I need > EXACT step-by-step intructions. kernel.org There's generally an INSTALL or README or FAQ file in the top tree of the source tree. These are plain text files. For the kernel, there's a ./Documentation/ tree with everything you should need to know. Just "cat <file> | more" to read them or "cat <file> | less". Or open them in your favorite text editor. For ndiswrapper you need at least the following two options in your kernel .config file. CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y > I don't even know how to load regular programs in Linux, let alone difficult > things like ndswrapper. tldp.org also known as "the linux documentation project", most everything you need to know is there. Although sometimes a particular distro differs from the norm so much on their version of a particular aspect that the tldp documention does not directly apply. And sometimes the pages there can be very old and otherwise out of sync with the current versions of things. also http://www.gnu.org/manual/ A lot of links to the documentation for almost anything gnu. And most times your distro keeps the docomentation that ships with your software. file:///usr/share/doc/ Other usefull linux sites: freshmeat.net (search for software here) www.linux-usb.org (usb stuff here) linuxprinting.org (printing stuff here) alsa-project.org (sound stuff here) HTH, James |