Trouble installing ndiswrapper

[ninjapenguin]

Hello I installed ndiswrapper, but it's not working.

[root@localhost Obel]# su -c 'yum -y install kmod-ndiswrapper'
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package kmod-ndiswrapper-1.52-33.lvn9.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

That's what I get when trying to re-install ndiswrapper, and it shows that I have it, but when I try to install a driver this is what it says

[root@localhost Obel]# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
bash: ndiswrapper: command not found

And I have the current livna

[root@localhost Obel]# su -c 'rpm -i http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm'
package livna-release-9-1.noarch is already installed

So, I have no clue why ndiswrapper is not working properly.

[ppesci]

Use the command:

locate ndiswrapper

to see where is located. I think the package is installed and command exist but not in the PATH

HTH

[bbfuller]

Hello ninjapenguin

You've probably only used the:

su

command to get your root privileges. That only gives you them over your ordinary users area.

You need to use:

su -

to get full root control over the whole machine. That space and minus sign after the su are critical.

[ninjapenguin]

Originally Posted by ppesci

Use the command:

locate ndiswrapper

to see where is located. I think the package is installed and command exist but not in the PATH

HTH

[Obel@localhost ~]$ locate ndiswrapper
locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': No such file or directory

that's what I got which means there's something weird with my F9

and I tried to reinstall ndiswrapper this time by doing su - instead of su and it came up stating that it is already installed

[bee]

try with

su -
updatedb

this will take some time... but after locate will work.

[ninjapenguin]

I fixed my problem, what I did was I yum remove ndiswrapper and then I went back and did su - and then yum install ndiswrapper and now it's working it was a quick fix that got it to work