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Luigi Pinna posted <200602020133.51288.mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:33:45 +0100: |
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> I bought that WLAN card and it was unsupported until end of December. |
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> Now there is the WindowsXP 64 driver and the linux beta driver. |
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> Now I want to use the stable WindowsXP drivers (the linux driver are |
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> only with the ~x86 keyword) but they are only in a .exe file. |
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> How can I use ndiswrapper? |
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> How can I have the .inf file? |
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> I have that: |
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> #file avm_fritz\!wlan_usb_stick_x64_build_051208.exe |
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> avm_fritz!wlan_usb_stick_x64_build_051208.exe: PE executable for MS |
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> Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit |
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You may be up a creek without a paddle, as they say. |
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I don't do proprietary/slaveryware, so I can't say for sure, but unless |
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I'm mistaken, the NDISWrapper thing is 32-bit only -- it won't work on a |
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64-bit Linux kernel. |
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If the Linux drivers are Freedomware, that is, if they come as or with |
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source, you may be able to compile them for a 64-bit Linux kernel. If |
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they are binary-only slaveryware also, they too are likely 32-bit only. |
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Your options would be to get a card that has proper Linux support, |
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preferably Freedomware altho some may offer 64-bit Linux slaveryware |
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drivers, or switch to regular 32-bit x86 Linux, which normally runs just |
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fine on amd64, only without the advantages and AMD extensions of amd64, |
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of course. |
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Me, I always check for Freedomware drivers /before/ I buy. If they aren't |
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available for the hardware, my mony won't be paying for it, period. I |
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refuse to support slaveryware with /my/ money, altho I recognize that |
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others may choose to do so with theirs, and that's of course their right, |
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no matter my opinion of the morality or wisdom thereof. I wouldn't accept |
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them deciding for me what I can spend my money on, so I can't expect them |
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to let me may the choice for them, either. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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