[plug] ndiswrapper - debian

[Onno Benschop]

Hi all,

I'm about to pull out all of my hair.

I've been trying to make a Belkin Wireless Card work under Debian Woody.

 From google I've determined that I need the ndiswrapper.

The error I get, regardless of what I try is:

make -C driver

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/clients/mackenzie/wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver'

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.5-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/home/clients/mackenzie/wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver \

        NDISWRAPPER_VERSION=1.1 \

        EXTRA_VERSION= modules

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/kernel-source-2.4.27'

make -C  /home/clients/mackenzie/wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernels/kernel-source-2.4.27/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/kernels/kernel-source-2.4.27/include/linux/modversions.h" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/clients/mackenzie/wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver'

make[3]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/clients/mackenzie/wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver'

make[2]: *** [_mod_/home/clients/mackenzie/wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/kernel-source-2.4.27'

make[1]: *** [default] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clients/mackenzie/wireless/ndiswrapper-1.1/driver'

make: *** [all] Error 2


Initially the machine had installed the current Woody 2.4 kernel, 
2.4.18tsc. I need to compile on my own workstation, because this machine 
is pretty ancient - it's going to be a gateway. Things I've tried:

   1. Compiling against the 2.4.18tsc headers
   2. Compiling against the 2.4.18 source with the debian config-2.4.18tsc
   3. Compiling against the 2.4.27 source
   4. Compiling with gcc 2.95
   5. Compiling with gcc 3.3

The kernel on my own machine is 2.6.5-1-686, so I've made a symlink into 
what ever source I'm compiling against from 
/lib/modules/2.6.5-1-686/build to the current kernel source in 
/usr/src/kernels/kernel-source-2.4.27.

Meanwhile while I've been doing this, I figured that the ndiswrapper 
item that stated that I needed 2.4.26 or later wasn't kidding, so I've 
now upgraded the gateway machine to Testing and is now running a Debian 
2.4.27 kernel - self compiled, using the config from the 2.4.27 kernel 
image.

I've googled until I'm blue in the face, spent two days on this and I'm 
still no closer.


Has anyone got any suggestions?

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