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... :P

[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."  :P

[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]

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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."  :P

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 :P.

[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 Expand


/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 Expand


/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?