Ndiswrapper 1.59 for Mepis 12

[lossy]

The set of 4 packages is available in jessie, but when installed on my 11.9.92 setup it prevents the system from fully booting. KDM never starts. I am unsure if a custom package for mepis would resolve this.

Thanks,

Brian

[Stevo]

Well, I'll try rebuilding and installing them in a virtual machine. Your bad experience makes me a bit leary of these.

Where exactly does your system hang up on the boot? Can you turn off Plymouth with <Esc> and read the boot messages?

[Danum]

The set of 4 packages is available in jessie, but when installed on my 11.9.92 setup it prevents the system from fully booting. KDM never starts. I am unsure if a custom package for mepis would resolve this.

Thanks,

Brian

Mepis 12 is built using Debian Wheezy, not Jessie which is Debian Testing,

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=Ndiswrapper

[Stevo]

Also, what device are you trying to get to work? It may be possible to get a native linux driver to work with it.

[peterstone]

In connection with ndiswrapper, it may be worth mentioning that, on Mepis 12, with the ndiswrapper from wheezy, I found it impossible to install a windows network driver which had installed and worked perfectly on Mepis 11 - installation being performed using the Mepis network assistant, which unfortunately is unavailable in Mepis 12.

The (rather unimportant) result being that the relevant machine, a Samsung netbook from 2009, still runs Mepis 11, and has not been upgraded to Mepis 12. The wifi device is a Realtek, for which there is a native driver in wheezy, which works fine in connecting to the Internet, but refuses to connect to my home network.

As indicated, this problem is of minimal importance to me. I can add that this is the only aspect of Mepis 12 with which I am not entirely happy. It serves as my main linux installation on my desktop machine, which uses a wired connection.

Best wishes,
Peter Stone

[lossy]

I quite understand that wheezy is the base for 12. I have a usb wifi card that I am using. I am running a native linux firmware with it to connect successfully however under heavy load it drops out. From several forums I have found that other linux firmware, has been found to exhibit similar behavior. This was resolved by using ndiswrapper. However when I install 1.57 that is available in testing or stable modprobe fails with a fatal error when trying to start ndiswrapper. This however can resolved by building 1.58rc1 or installing 1.59. I attempted to build 1.58 and it failed make with error 2, it was unable to find the kernel source build files for the mepis 3.9 pae [sic]. After installing 1.59 ndiswrapper, my entire system hung hard when I did 'modprobe ndiswrapper' I couldnet ctrl+esc, ctrl+alt+bckspc, etc. After restarting it looks like it is starting X or maybe kdm, pressing esc it does give one modprobe error early on, but continues to load and when it goes black with a underscore in the top left momentarily, it hangs there. ESC does nothing etc.

Did I miss anything that would be helpful?

[Stevo]

Well, I've backported 1.59 from Jessie--you should let ndiswrapper-dkms try and build modules for the kernel automatically. It did fail with my Liquorix 3.12 kernel that I'm running, but succeeded for the stock 64-bit:

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Done.
Unpacking replacement ndiswrapper-dkms ...
Preparing to replace ndiswrapper-source 1.59-1mcr120+1 (using ndiswrapper-source_1.59-1mcr120+1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ndiswrapper-source ...
Preparing to replace ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 1.59-1mcr120+1 (using ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.59-1mcr120+1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ...
Setting up ndiswrapper-common (1.59-1mcr120+1) ...
Setting up ndiswrapper-dkms (1.59-1mcr120+1) ...
Loading new ndiswrapper-1.59 DKMS files...
Building for 3.9-1-mepis64 and 3.12-3.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64
Building initial module for 3.9-1-mepis64
Done.

ndiswrapper:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.9-1-mepis64/updates/

depmod.......

DKMS: install completed.
Building initial module for 3.12-3.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.12-3.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.59/build/make.log for more information.
Setting up ndiswrapper-source (1.59-1mcr120+1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (1.59-1mcr120+1) ...

Packages: http://ubuntuone.com/3bdU39t8Mnp0yb2Iyb7tXh

[lossy]

It install perfectly. Thanks so much!

Just having trouble figuring out my blacklist so I can use ndiswrapper, but I will work that separately.

[timkb4cq]

Bump: ndiswrapper 1.59-2 from Jessie has just been uploaded to the M12 testing CR. It's patched to install on kernels >= 3.14.