Linux Mint with RTAI

Why use ndiswraper ? If i remember correctly there are other proprietary drivers for broadcom cards. Do you get any other option, like btxxx drivers ???
I do not have any of those, but i know that you get a choice of them in Linux Mint and Ubuntu when using the driver manager that comes with those distributions.
I know from experience that ndiswraper will mess up the system in 80% of installs, and some times irreversible.
Hold on leme read ............nope no mention of the wifi chipset, so i gues it is broadcom.

andypugh wrote: An idea from the IRC, you could try uninstalling ndiswrapper through the package manager, and see if things work better then.

I will.

tommylight wrote: Why use ndiswraper ? If i remember correctly there are other proprietary drivers for broadcom cards. Do you get any other option, like btxxx drivers ???
I do not have any of those, but i know that you get a choice of them in Linux Mint and Ubuntu when using the driver manager that comes with those distributions.
I know from experience that ndiswraper will mess up the system in 80% of installs, and some times irreversible.
Hold on leme read ............nope no mention of the wifi chipset, so i gues it is broadcom.

I am following the cookbook notes in this thread exactly with no modifications. I installed from the downloaded Mint ISO with no additional software. The ndiswapper was unexpected. This is a standard HP Tower with no built in wireless.

Patrick Obrien wrote:

andypugh wrote: An idea from the IRC, you could try uninstalling ndiswrapper through the package manager, and see if things work better then.

I will.

Andy - Thanks! That did it, I got past the ndis error.

Thankfully this is documented for the next guy.

Has anyone got Linux mint 18.1 working with linuxcnc? 32or64 bit

I've read on these forums that 18 will work after figuring out the python dependencies. I tried all day yesterday on 18.1 to no avail.
I'm running along with 17.3 mint 4.8.11rt7 just fine. 2.8 master, Im just messing around and want 18.1 now

I'm stuck on the build asking for tcl & tk locations. I linked them via -includetcl/user/lib....ect but still fail the Hal.sh build Critical error.
Can't remember the file it's failing:linked to. But it's for tcl.

Any one note the dependencies they needed/workaround if your up and running?

I've already compiled preemptive and RTAI kernels. For linuxcnc I'm using a RIP build.
I like mint the best out of all others I've tried. Best out of the box desktop imho.

I'm going to try another fresh install. See how that works!

I got past my fatal error by also installing

python-tk

Linux bridgeport-H81M-S2PH 4.8.11-rt7 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Dec 27 21:41:32 CST 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

... linux mint 18.1 is up and running. I'll try to post what I did to get it going if anyone is interested.