idiot guide to ndiswrapper

[zjunker]

Hello I am new to linux and ndiswrapper. I am trying to get my belkin f5d7000 pci wireless g card to work with fedora. I am trying to follow directions I have found for ndiswrapper and it isn;t going so well. I can't "make install" nor can I "ln -s /usr/src/linux-<kernel-version> /lib/modules/VERSION/build" which I think would let me "make install". Basically I am looking for a step by step idiots guide to makeing ndiswrapper work for me. I am very new to linux and don't understand much. I have tried following the directions on the sourceforge ndiswrapper site and can't get it to work. Any help or ifyou could point me towards some very detailed installation directions for ndiswrapper it would be very much appreciated. thanks so much. Once I have internet working then I can focus on learning linux.

much appreciated.

[khbeowulf]

Which Distro are you using...fc2 or fc3? I am using the same card and working fine but with fc3 there are a few more things to do..

[v8s10blazer]

hey junker,

Do you have the source for your kernel installed? If not, download it in a RPM and use rpm -ivh <filename> to install it. Then try the make install command. i didnt have any problems installing ndiswrapper on my computer. I like ndiswrapper, very very cool program..

Hopefully that will help... If it still has problems, maybe you should move back to fedora 2 until the bugs get fixed in 3.. Fedora 2 works very good!