From ubuntu-users  Wed Oct 06 21:03:18 2004
From: cjwatson () canonical ! com (Colin Watson)
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:03:18 +0000
To: ubuntu-users
Subject: Dwl-650+ (Ndiswrapper in general)
Message-Id: <20041006210318.GH17611 () riva ! ucam ! org>
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Andr'e Kuntze wrote:
> you said, you just had to install the kernel-headers (+compiler
> stuff)? On sourceforge
> (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Distributions ) it
> says that you also need kernel-sources,... what about that?? Didn't
> you install them??
> 
> Is the package "linux-kernel-headers" enough or did you install a
> specific one like "linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3"??

linux-kernel-headers is only for internal use by glibc (and for
compatibility with some broken source packages). It's actually somewhat
misnamed. linux-headers-* is generally what you want for third-party
drivers.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]