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Latch · 12-23-2005, 07:27 PM

I'm making some assumptions here:

#1) ndiswrapper (ver 0.8) was installed by Mandrake during the install.
#2) ndiswrapper (ver 0.8) is an rpm, and ndiswrapper 0.9 is a source tarball that you'll ./configure and compile yourself.

at a shell prompt type:

rpm -qa | grep ndis

This should tell you the name of the ndiswrapper rpm that is installed (ndiswrapper-0.8-12 or something is most likely it). Once you can see the name of the rpm (ignoring all the number parts), remove the rpm with:

rpm -e ndiswrapper

This will remove the old version.

You're now free to install the new version. Good luck

(building ndiswrapper from source requires that you have the kernel sources [ or at least the kernel headers ] installed on your machine, so you may have to install them).

As an aside.. some people are starting to develop drivers for the broadcom chipset through reverse engineering. It's nowhere near stable or properly useable yet, but it should make life alot easier in the future.

12-23-2005, 07:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
Latch In Your Dreams Location: City of Lights	I'm making some assumptions here: #1) ndiswrapper (ver 0.8) was installed by Mandrake during the install. #2) ndiswrapper (ver 0.8) is an rpm, and ndiswrapper 0.9 is a source tarball that you'll ./configure and compile yourself. at a shell prompt type: rpm -qa \| grep ndis This should tell you the name of the ndiswrapper rpm that is installed (ndiswrapper-0.8-12 or something is most likely it). Once you can see the name of the rpm (ignoring all the number parts), remove the rpm with: rpm -e ndiswrapper This will remove the old version. You're now free to install the new version. Good luck (building ndiswrapper from source requires that you have the kernel sources [ or at least the kernel headers ] installed on your machine, so you may have to install them). As an aside.. some people are starting to develop drivers for the broadcom chipset through reverse engineering. It's nowhere near stable or properly useable yet, but it should make life alot easier in the future.