Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

[dell core2duo]

On Feb 18, 2008 5:59 PM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 23:31 +0530, dell core2duo wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan
> > <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
> >
> >         On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:
> >         > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100
> >         > Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> >         >
> >         > > > BTW,
> >         > > >   I am more interested to get things working. Quality
> >         would be my
> >         > > > second priority.
> >         > >
> >         > > As I said before, I did not have any problem
> >         (unfortunately, I cannot
> >         > > access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue).
> >         >
> >         > I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though
> >         admittedly I
> >         > didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper
> >         pretty
> >         > quickly.
> >
> >
> >         how did you get ndiswrapper to work?  It worked for me for
> >         2.6.23, but
> >         not for 2.6.24.  I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some trouble
> >         getting
> >         the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in
> >         the mean
> >         time.
> >
> > I guess there are some problems with ndiswrapper on kernel-2.4.26.  I
> > didn't get ndiswraper worked with kernel-2.4.26.
>
> Oh, I thought you meant ndis with 2.4.26.


I mean kernel 2.6.24 !!


>
>
> > did you tried kernel b43 module ??  Read below links, these may help
> > you.
>
> I use b44 for my eth0 (always have).  The problem with ndiswrapper was
> that b44 was grabbing wlan0 before ndis could.  I couldn't ping over the
> wlan so I assumed b44 didn't work, but I was just playing around with
> routes, and I have managed to get both eth0 and wlan0 working with b44
> together (no ndis).
>
> If you understood that sentence, congratulations!
>

I understand little bit not fully. I didn't get how you managed without b43
module ? would be great if you could explain that.

thanks,
flukebox




> so no more ndis it seems!
>
> thanks,
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