Am Samstag, 1. April 2006 20:40 schrieb Freddy Freeloader: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I'm running a combination of etch and sid on an HP Pavilion dv8000z > > that runs the AMD Turion. I'm running 32 bit Debian with the 64 bit > > kernel that is released with sarge, etch, and sid. > > > > I've been trying to get my wireless going and having problems getting > > it up and running. The laptop has the Broadcom wireless card and lspci > > reports it as a bcm4318. I ran ndiswrapper and it ran successfully. > > ndiswrapper -l lists the driver and says the driver and hardware are > > present. However when I went to run modprobe ndiswrapper it reported > > a fatal error: Module not found. > > > > I located ndiswrapper.ko (It was with the 2.6.8-2 module that etch and > > sid both install as the ndiswrapper module), and added the directory > > to the PATH. Now when I run modprobe I'm getting the "invalid module > > format" error. > > > > I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what is causing the problem. > > Is it because the ndiswrapper is from a different kernel, or does this > > error have anything to do with possible differences in compilers? How > > do I figure out which is the problem? I am not running a custom kernel > > other than it's a 64 bit kernel, rather than a 32 bit kernel. > > As a further update: > > I tried using module-assistant to install ndiswrapper from source today > and it failed. It says it can't find any source for the kernel. > > uname -a says the kernel is 2.6.15-1-486. That seems like a pretty > strange naming convention for a 64 bit kernel but that's what it reports.
Hi, as far as I know you need 64-Bit Windows drivers to work with ndiswrapper on a 64-Bit kernel. Maybe this is your problem. regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
