On Friday, 23. March 2012. 14.36.26 Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at 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