ndiswrapper 'make[1]: *** [default] Error 2'

[thomwickes]

Hi there - installed FC6 at the weekend and I'm trying to get my wireless card to work. After some reading up I realised i needed to install ndiswrapper, but I can't seem to get it to install - here's the problems I encounter:

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.43]# make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/media/MAIN/Linux Drivers/ndiswrapper-1.43/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build SUBDIRS=/media/MAIN/Linux Drivers/ndiswrapper-1.43/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `Drivers/ndiswrapper-1.43/driver'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/MAIN/Linux Drivers/ndiswrapper-1.43/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.43]# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/media/MAIN/Linux Drivers/ndiswrapper-1.43/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build SUBDIRS=/media/MAIN/Linux Drivers/ndiswrapper-1.43/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `Drivers/ndiswrapper-1.43/driver'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/MAIN/Linux Drivers/ndiswrapper-1.43/driver'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I have about a million other things to install, but most guides I see use yum and as far as I know yum uses the internet to install updates (is this right?). I'm a COMPLETE newbie trying to learn to use Linux so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ive read a thread on about anaconda installing the wrong kernal, but I don't know if this is my problem or how to amend it without an internet connection in Fedora. I have to boot into WinXP to read up on stuff. Also I haven't installed GCC - could this be my problem? is it not built into the FC6 installer?

I'm hoping when I have an internet connection working in Linux, everything else should be a bit easier to install.

Thanks

[thomwickes]

I had a search around on the internet and found some people not having GCC installed or not having previous versions installed.

I downloaded glibc-2.5-10.fc6.src and gcc-4.1.1-51.fc6.src but i'm not really too sure how to install them.

I tried typing

rpm -ivh glibc-2.5-10.fc6.src.rpm

into a shell, but got the following error

warning: glibc-2.5-10.fc6.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
1:glibc warning: user brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: group brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: user brewbuilder does not exist - using root
warning: group brewbuilder does not exist - using root


I'm pretty sure I'm going about everything the wrong way - any pointers anyone?

[Oxygen]

Try running "make distclean", if that's not working post the output of "make -d"

BTW for installing those packages on Fedora you need (I think) to be root.