On Friday, 23. March 2012. 14.36.26 Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvmarko@gmail.com
wrote:
This time I was hoping to make it work again in the same way. But the "yum install kmod-ndiswrapper" reports the following (among other regular stuff):
And yum refuses to install it. I've never seen this kind of report by yum. What's going on here? And more importantly, how do I install kmod-ndiswrapper on my up-to-date CentOS 6.2?
That is odd. What is your kernel?
uname -mri
That would be the latest regular CentOS 6.2 kernel:
# uname -mri 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.i686 i686 i386
Also, there is some chance that you can find a driver for your wireless USB dongle. That would eliminate the need for ndiswrapper. Please give more detailed info. Output from the lsusb command will be useful.
lsusb didn't provide any nontrivial output (it reported all USB ports as empty). There was something nontrivial going on in /var/log/messages about kernel not being able to recognize the device or something, but I cannot remember it now.
But Ned Slider suggested the kmod-compat-wireless package from elrepo-testing, and after that both /var/log/messages and lsusb reported the proper device (see my response to Ned for details). And it appears to be working fine (so far, I am yet to try to connect with it...).
OK, just found that version of kmod-ndiswrapper would not install in CentOS 6.2 kernels.
I still hope you don't have to use ndiswrapper.
Of course, it is always much better if there are native drivers available. And I'll settle even for the kmod-compat-wireless if it works. The ndiswrapper solution was the last resort, but in the end it seems I won't need it, which is great! :-)
Anyway, thanks for help!
Best, :-) Marko