making link to kernel source

[phopogologo]

hello, I have this problem with ndiswrapper. I downloaded it and untarred it, but failed to do the make command. It prompts me:

phobo@debian:~/dlf/ndiswrapper-1.49$ make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/phobo/dlf/ndiswrapper-1.49/driver'
Makefile:35: *** Cannot find kernel version in /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/build, is it configured?. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/phobo/dlf/ndiswrapper-1.49/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

and I have acknowledged from other webpages that I have to make a link to the kernel source from the /lib/modules/VERSION/build directory. How this is accomplished is not written because it should be standard on most distributions. Please help

[daark.child]

What Linux distribution are you using? Do you have the kernel source (or kernel-devel) installed? If so, does it match the version of the kernel you are currently running?

[phopogologo]

I am running Debian. After thinking for a while I concluded that the kernel source I downloaded may not be working, but I think that my problem too in #1

[phopogologo]

I am running Debian. After thinking for a while I concluded that the kernel source I downloaded may not be working, but I think that my problem too in #1

debian:/home/phobo# uname -r
2.6.18-5-686

[daark.child]

You need to look in Synaptic (or using apt/aptitude) for the kernel-source version that matches the version of the kernel that you are running and select that for installation.

[phopogologo]

Okay, I searched the packages and I actually found some programs for ndiswrapper and therefore do no longer have any problems with that. Now my problem is that I need the driver files for my netcard, eh, forgive me, but how do I do that?

[phopogologo]

Okay, I have made some progression. I found the ndiswrapper files on my synaptics package manager and installed it therefrom. I also have downloaded the drivers for this computer but putting it all together still does not work. I follow this tutorial: http://www.linuxforums.org/network/w...and_linux.html and have followed it to the point in which i have to write "modprobe ndiswrapper", but then the computer prompts me with debian:/home/phobo/dlf/80211BG/Driver# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

and I do not know what it wrong or what to do. My best guess is that the correct kernel source is not installed. I just made the assumption that it would be installed together with ndiswrapper but it might have been a bad guess. I have not yet been able to find any such thing as kernel source on synaptics. If anybody can tell me the name of the file I have to install through it I will be delighted. Though if anybody has a better idea of what is wrong I would like to hear it

[daark.child]

If you installed ndiswrapper using the Debian packages, then there is no need for the kernel source. Did you reboot after installig ndiswrapper. I remember a while back that I had to reboot my system in order for ndiswrapper to work.

[phopogologo]

ndiswrapper works now.

I then installed the driver

ndiswrapper -i /link/driver.INF

which prompted me that I needed some .dll-file but installed the driver anyway
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debian:/home/phobo# ndiswrapper -m
modprobe config already contains alias directive

debian:/home/phobo# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
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and now I am stuck...again