NDISWrapper prevented from upgrading?

[Seth]

I run ndiswrapper on my laptop with my Broadcom card. After adding Breezy repo's:

ndiswrapper-utils:
Depends: ndiswrapper-modules-1.1 but it is not installable

I'm trying to upgrade from the Hoary version. Is this because the rest of the code just hasn't made it in yet, or do I need to get the modules myself and install them, or what?

Thanks for help :)

[az]

"do I need to get the modules myself and install them, or what?"

Yup.


Get the source. Install build-essential and your linux-headers package

untar the source
cd into it
sudo debian/rules binary

and install the package that it makes for you...

[Seth]

"do I need to get the modules myself and install them, or what?"

Yup.


Get the source. Install build-essential and your linux-headers package

untar the source
cd into it
sudo debian/rules binary

and install the package that it makes for you...
Perfection. Thanks so much.

Why was I able to pull .12+cvs out of Synaptic, but not this version? Would it appear eventually if I waited?

[az]

After a release, no packages are upgraded, just updated. Look for new version in the next release, or just use a backport...

Either can be risky, which is why the stable version does not change.

[Seth]

Confused; shouldn't Breezy be where all the new stuff is? But I assume it'll show up eventually, then. Thanks for showing me how to build it myself.

[Steven Myers]

Hey azz, I have the same problem, but what do you mean by untar the source? I have build-essential installed, but not sure what to do from here as far as getting the ndswrapper-utils to install...

[Seth]

You downloaded a tar.gz file. Use tar -xvzf ndiswrapper[TAB] to un-tar / un-gzip it.

[Seth]

Okay, almost there. Everything built just fine after I symlinked my kernel headers to /usr/src/linux/ but now I can't insert the kernel. seth@eos:/usr/src/modules $ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-686/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Invalid module format
seth@eos:/usr/src/modules $ dmesg
...
ndiswrapper: version magic '2.6.10-5-686 preempt 686 gcc-4.0' should be '2.6.10-5-686 preempt 686 gcc-3.3' Any thoughts on telling the compile to use gcc-3.3?

[Seth]

Well, there's probably a better way, but I just changed the /usr/bin/gcc symlink to point to gcc-3.3 temporarily. I'm up and running again! :D