A ndiswrapper question [Solved]

[MishY]

Hi,

I am using ndiswrapper-0.6 and have successfully got my truemobile 1300 working also with acpi enabled in kernel.

Currently after every reboot I have to do the following:

modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid default
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0

Is there anyway which I can have this done at boot time ?

[Earthwings]

The ndiswrapper package has already prepared it for you. You've got to run ebuild ... config and edit /etc/modules.d/ndiswrapper. Do a "grep einfo <path-to-ndiswrapper-ebuild>" to find out how to do it in detail. Next edit /etc/conf.d/net and copy a net.wlan0 or net.eth0 or whatever to /etc/init.d and add it to the default runlevel.

[MishY]

Thank you for your reply Earthwings.

I am a little confused still...

I have no ndiswrapper file in:

/etc/modules.d/

Weird

[latexer]

The ebuild for ndiswrapper includes the file in /etc/modules.d/

I just bumped the version inportage to 0.6 for everyone. It's still marked ~x86 for testing though. hth.
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[MishY]

Thanks latexer - I got this error though when trying to install it:

bash-2.05b# emerge ndiswrapper-0.6.ebuild
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-wireless/ndiswrapper-0.6 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ndiswrapper-0.6.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
* /usr/src/linux is a symbolic link
* Determining the real directory of the Linux kernel source code
* Building for Linux 2.6.4-rc1 found in /usr/src/linux
>>> Unpacking ndiswrapper-0.6.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-0.6/work
>>> Source unpacked.
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-0.6/work/ndiswrapper-0.6/driver'
make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule.
make -C //usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-0.6/work/ndiswrapper-0.6/driver DRV_VERSION=0.6 modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-rc1'
CHK include/linux/version.h
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.4-rc1/include/linux/version.h.tmp
/bin/sh: line 1: include/linux/version.h.tmp: Permission denied
UPD include/linux/version.h
mv: cannot stat `include/linux/version.h.tmp': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-rc1'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ndiswrapper-0.6/work/ndiswrapper-0.6/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/ndiswrapper-0.6 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 40, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-net-wireless_-_ndiswrapper-0.6-4576.log"

open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.4-rc1/include/linux/version.h.tmp
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bash-2.05b#

[Earthwings]

You'll get that error for every package that uses the kernel-module eclass on 2.6 kernels. As a workaround it's possible to disable sandboxing in FEATURES - or wait some more days as latexer is working on a a new one I believe that will be released soon

[MishY]

Sorry to appear nubbish (only had Gentoo installed for 4days)

How do I change that setting in FEATURES ? Is that a command or file ?

Thanks for your help

[MishY]

ah got it

FEATURES="-*" emerge ndiswrapper-0.6.ebuild

Will see if this works

[latexer]

[MishY]

I have managed to solve my original problem by using the scripts found here:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435

Unfortunately I didn't have much like with the ndiswrapper-0.6 ebuild however I know its still being worked on so no matter

Thanks for your efforts guys