About to dive into this fun world of Linux!

[CrAz3D]

I did that too.

Just when doing something with ndiswrapper it can't find build files for that kernel

[MyndFyre]

Can't you grab some rpm's or something? But yea... there's several tools that are quite useful... there's another one like yum... I forget though . I personally do not suggest you try to compile a kernel at this point. Stick with package here until you get to know the system better.

There aren't RPMs for NDISWrapper yet.  NDISWrapper comes with a very simple installation instruction:

make install

Then:

modprobe ndiswrapper

Unfortunately make install fails because it's expecting kernel sources.

[Joe]

[...] Installing is easy.  You download the package [...]

How is he supposed to download it? =p

That is a real pain. What came first, the chicken or the egg? What came first, the connection to get the connection support, or the connection support to make the connection?

[CrAz3D]

still lookin for Ndiswrapper solutions

Also, how do I chmod my /fat drive so I can read/write?
I've tried chmod 777 /fat (like I sorta used to do with FTP stuff), but that aint working right

[Ergot]

I meant download the kernel packages...

[Sidoh]

still lookin for Ndiswrapper solutions

Also, how do I chmod my /fat drive so I can read/write?
I've tried chmod 777 /fat (like I sorta used to do with FTP stuff), but that aint working right

Look in the /etc/fstab file I introduced to you yesterday.  You'll need to change "defaults" (if that's what you have it as; I noticed you said "default" once, but I dismissed it as a typo at the time) to something that allows write privileges.

[CrAz3D]

I've already downloaded the kernel & kernel-devel RPMs, I still do not have "build" files for the kernels.

I've found an RPM for ndiswrapper1.7-2.fhfc5.at.x86_64
Error: Missing Dependency: ndiswrapper-kmdl-1.7.2.rhfc5.at is needed by package ndiswrapper

[MyndFyre]

still lookin for Ndiswrapper solutions

Also, how do I chmod my /fat drive so I can read/write?
I've tried chmod 777 /fat (like I sorta used to do with FTP stuff), but that aint working right

You need to update your mount command to something like mount -rw /dev/hda2 /fat.  Check mount's man page (man mount) for more info.

<rant>Of course, there's a chance that the man page will have just-as-obscure switch documentation like "-rw makes the device's attributes rw." 

[CrAz3D]

k, i'll check on that when i'm done reinstalling....

I loaded so many random RPMs trying to get the ndiswrapper rpm i found to work it was nuts.  I loaded .5gb of 'stuff' today, oye.
Just thought I'd try again
Maybe it'll work better this time? .. prob not,but its cleaner now. 

I'll probably just wait for you to complete it all & write up a fun little thing I can read

[Sidoh]

You need to update your mount command to something like mount -rw /dev/hda2 /fat.  Check mount's man page (man mount) for more info.

<rant>Of course, there's a chance that the man page will have just-as-obscure switch documentation like "-rw makes the device's attributes rw." 

It's mounted using an entry in /etc/fstab, not a command run in the startup scripts.

[Ergot]

k, i'll check on that when i'm done reinstalling....

I loaded so many random RPMs trying to get the ndiswrapper rpm i found to work it was nuts.  I loaded .5gb of 'stuff' today, oye.
Just thought I'd try again
Maybe it'll work better this time? .. prob not,but its cleaner now. 

I'll probably just wait for you to complete it all & write up a fun little thing I can read

* Ergot remembers the days of using RH9...

Ahh those were horrible times .

[CrAz3D]

un-w00t, I found open modes

I want to use rw instead of defaults...or w/e I had
Although, defaults include: rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async

When I try to delete something from /fat it still says I can't do it because I don't have access to modify parent directory ("/")...how do I get access to do that?!

[Ergot]

In /etc/fstab:

Code: [Select]

/dev/hda2        /fat           vfat        uid=yourusername,umask=0077         1   0
I think that's what iago told me to do or what it someone else...

[CrAz3D]

In /etc/fstab:

Code: [Select]

/dev/hda2        /fat           vfat        uid=yourusername,umask=0077         1   0
I think that's what iago told me to do or what it someone else...

have it @

/dev/hda2     /fat     vfat     uid=CrAz3D,umask=0077     1 0

Still get "dont have permissions to modify parent folder"


edit:
BLAST IT!

I download/install kernel-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.x86_64 (or something similar)..it works.
I extract ndiswrapper-1.15.  That works.
I cd to /home/CrAz3D/ndiswrapper-1.15.  Fine & dandy
# make (that worked)
#make install (that worked)

now when I try to run a ndiswrapper command it doesnt work:( boo

[Ergot]

Did you like... restart?