[plug] ndiswrapper - debian

[Onno Benschop]

At 3am this morning, I finally came up with something that actually 
works, so if the ndiswrapper HOWTO doesn't work for you and you get the 
following error using their suggestion: (fakeroot debian/rules binary)

    *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.

Try this as a solution instead: (the magic line is item#5)

       1. cd /usr/src
       2. tar jxvf ndiswrapper-source.tar.bz2
       3. ln -s {kernel source} linux
       4. cd linux
       5. fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image
       6. cd ..
       7. dpkg -i ndiswrapper*.deb

That created the appropriate .deb, which installed without a problem. (I 
still have the symlink in /lib/modules/{kernel version}/build to the 
same linux source, but I don't think it is needed.)


For completeness, this was to install:

    lspci

        0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Belkin Wireless PCI Card -
        F5D6001 (rev 20)

    lspci -n

        0000:00:09.0 0200: 1799:6001 (rev 20)


Other steps to success were:

    Get the WinXP drivers from the realtek site, or their mirror:

        http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=8180
        http://w3serv.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?Keyword=8180

    Extract the files


    Add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf

        kernel.shmmax = 67108864
        kernel.shmall = 67108864

    Then run

        sysctl -p

    Not sure if the syctl update and command are now needed, I used it
    when I was trying to install the Belkin drivers which didn't work
    they gave this error:

ndiswrapper: driver net6001p (Belkin Corporation,11/05/2002, 1.68.1105.2002) loaded
__alloc_pages: 6-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0)
ndiswrapper (NdisMAllocateSharedMemory:1004): Failed to allocate DMA coherent memory. Windows driver requested 240816 bytes of un-cached memory
ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_add_one_pci_dev:188): Windows driver couldn't initialize the device (C0000001)
    


    Install the file using ndiswrapper:

        ndiswrapper -i NET8180.INF
        ndiswrapper -d 1799:6001 net8180
        modprobe ndiswrapper
        iwconfig

That gave me a wlan0 device which you can then just treat as a normal 
network card.

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