Need help with ndiswrapper compile

[Restlessknight]

Hi all
I'm new to linux and Kunbuntu, and am trying to get my wireless nic (dell 1390) to work on my E1505.
Through research I have figured out that I need a newer ndiswrapper to accomidate the driver.
I downloaded the ndiswrapper-1.17 source, tried following the directions to compile, but get this error when I try to run make...

make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/brian/ndiswrapper-1.17/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/brian/ndiswrapper-1.17/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas on what to do to get past this?

[arochester]

Re: Need help with ndiswrapper compile

Have you installed either Automatix or Easyubuntu?

More importantly have you tried Internet>Wireless Assistant (Wireless Lan Manager)?

[Restlessknight]

Re: Need help with ndiswrapper compile

I haven't tried either of these yet - what exactly are they for?

Wireless assistant can't do anything because I can't mount the device until I get the ndiswrapper to successfully load the driver.

[arochester]

Re: Need help with ndiswrapper compile

Automatix or Easybuntu are script which download a whole bunch of stuff and increase the number of repositories you can download stuff from.

I have used Automatix. It installs Synaptic which is the best Package Manager - better than Apt ot Adept. Ndiswrapper is available for download and installation through (Automatix and) Synaptic. All of your dependencies are worked out. It is a lot easier to download and install through a package manager rather than taking things from source

[Restlessknight]

Re: Need help with ndiswrapper compile

Well, I got it going!
What a learning experiance that was.
I ended up changing the kernel to the 686 kernel to take advantage of the dual core processer, uninstalled the standard ndiswrapper, and compiled the ndiswrapper-1.17 source.
It was easy after that

Thanks to eveyone who helped me!

[ftomika]

Re: Need help with ndiswrapper compile

Hi Restlessknight!

Can you tell us how?
I'm experiencing the same problem as you had initially, that I cannot upgrade ndiswrapper, because after 'make' it gives me:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/brian/ndiswrapper-1.17/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/brian/ndiswrapper-1.17/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks!