Greetings,

I apologise in advance if this email was sent in the wrong area as I am not familiar with where this should be directed to.

ndiswrapper-dkms has been flagged out of date for quite awhile, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ndiswrapper-dkms/ and there has been no updates/news with regards to it. So I decided to tackle the issue.

The upstream source indicates v1.63 has been released, https://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/files/stable/ however it does not compile against kernel 5.8 or later (as of writing, Arch Linux is up to 5.14.2-arch1-2); https://sourceforge.net/p/ndiswrapper/bugs/272/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/ndiswrapper/discussion/323168/thread/17c9cdb567/?l...

Initially, I have located a patch from a repository for another Linux distribution, Fedora, https://lists.rpmfusion.org/archives/list/rpmfusion-commits@lists.rpmfusion.... Though getting this to work via dkms has been rather tricky, and in my case I have found that the only way to get it compiled was to fully disable NX bit (both 64bit and 32bit), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit

Thereafter, I have noticed another patch, https://github.com/pgiri/ndiswrapper/issues/6#issuecomment-784579834 This patch does not appear to require disabling of NX bit during kernel module compile time, but it probably does require NX bit disabled when loading the compiled kernel module. I do not have any 64bit windows driver that I could use to test against the network hardware that I have. Other than that, it does compile with v1.63 and with kernel 5.14.2-arch1-2.

Attached below includes an updated but hackish PKGBUILD, the initial patch, as well as relevant logs. The latter patch can be easily obtained, therefore it is not included.

Best regards,

David