ndiswrapper uses deprecated "update-modules" command

[Heiko Ettelbrück]

Binary package hint: ndiswrapper-common

Hi,

running "ndiswrapper" to generate a a config file for modprobe in /etc/modprobe.d/, I got the following warning (I assume it's not error). Are you aware of that? Is it possible to "make that message disappear" (obviously by using a non-deprecated way to achieve the same, not by removing the message ;-) ).

# ndiswrapper -m
adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper ...

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* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
*
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Thanks for your feedback and best regards
Heiko

[Ron Rhodes (owdronrhodes)]

I always get this message when I use Ndiswrapper.
From the current Ndiswrapper man page: "-m writes an alias for wlan0 (default wireless device) into module configuration file so that ndiswrapper kernel module is loaded automatically when this interface is used"
If there is a new option option which should be use in place of -m then the man page needs correcting.

[Andreas Gnau (rondom)]

The message is completely harmless. What ndiswrapper tries to achieve is to work on all kinds of distributions. You could make it stop calling update-modules if modprobe.d exists or something like that (this needs to be investigated).

Again: the message is completely harmless, see man update-modules.

PS: ndiswrapper -ma is the recommended way to make ndiswrapper load automatically nowadays.