Installing the 'make' command offline

[2eXtreme]

Hey guys, I'm sure this is a very newbie question to ask, but I recently have been trying to install ndiswrapper so I can get interent access when running ubuntu. So I finally learnt how to extract the tar.gz, but when it comes to running the make command, I get "command not found". Now, I've read alot on how to get the make command, but its all about running a command like "apt-get" or something, but of course, this requires an active internet connection, which I don't have on ubuntu. So I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to install the make command without the use of that apt get command? Like is there a website that has the make.deb setup file that I can download using windows and then run on ubuntu? Please help on this, its the only thing preventing me on focusing using ubuntu as a primary OS. Any help given is very much appreciated!

[aysiu]

You can use the CD as a repository instead of the online repositories. This works for both the Desktop CD and the Alternate CD.

Pop the CD in your drive and then

sudo apt-cdrom add
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install build-essential

There--now you have the make command.

[2eXtreme]

okay thanks very much for that.

okay ive gt ndis installed, and i have downloaded the right drivers etc but when it comes to configuring wlan0 like it says in the tutorials, it says fatal error wlan0 doesnt exist or something like that, so basically its telling me i missed some part out. do you know what may be causing this problem?

thanks very much for your help!

[bidi]

What's the output of

ndiswrapper -l

as well as

iwconfig

It might be that your card is not supported by ndiswrapper, check their website for compatibility.

[2eXtreme]

its okay i got it working fine now. i had to do something like ndiswrapper followed by the driver name and the devid