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From: dell core2duo <gentoomail.dell@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:01:26
Message-Id: e5e065050802151001t2cf10b89wc9a2a7948e09b973@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper by Iain Buchanan
1 On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
2 wrote:
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5 > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:
6 > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100
7 > > Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:
8 > >
9 > > > > BTW,
10 > > > > I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my
11 > > > > second priority.
12 > > >
13 > > > As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I cannot
14 > > > access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue).
15 > >
16 > > I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though admittedly I
17 > > didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper pretty
18 > > quickly.
19 >
20 > how did you get ndiswrapper to work? It worked for me for 2.6.23, but
21 > not for 2.6.24. I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some trouble getting
22 > the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in the mean
23 > time.
24 >
25
26 I guess there are some problems with ndiswrapper on kernel-2.4.26. I didn't
27 get ndiswraper worked with kernel-2.4.26.
28 did you tried kernel b43 module ?? Read below links, these may help you.
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30 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx
31 http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43?action=show&redirect=en%2Fusers%2FDrivers%2Fbcm43xx
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33 regards,
34 flukebox
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40 >
41 > When I load ndiswrapper (yes I've rebuilt it :) I get no wlan0 like I
42 > used to.
43 >
44 > thanks,
45 > --
46 > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
47 >
48 > Wash: "Oh my god, it's grotesque! Oh, and there's something in a jar."
49 > --Episode #12, "The Message"
50 >
51 > --
52 > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
53 >
54 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>