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Mark Knecht: |
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> Following along in the spirit of your response I don't even see |
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> version 1.23 so I've tried installing the newest masked version, |
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> even though I expect this failed on your machine: |
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> |
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> Sector9 ~ # eix -I ndiswrapper |
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> * net-wireless/ndiswrapper |
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> Available versions: 1.2-r1 1.25 1.26 1.28 1.29 |
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> Installed: 1.29 |
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> Homepage: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ |
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> Description: Wrapper for using Windows drivers for |
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> some wireless cards |
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This is why I now keep two Gentoo root partitions, "stable" |
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and "testing": in "stable" there is a fully working system, |
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in "testing" I.... update and look at what happens ;-) |
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> From the command line it appears that the newest version of |
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> ndiswrapper is suggesting I can now use a Linux driver. I have no |
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> idea how to actually do that though. |
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> |
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> Sector9 ~ # ndiswrapper -l |
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> installed drivers: |
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> neta3ab driver installed, hardware (168C:001A) present |
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> (alternate driver: ath_pci) |
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> Sector9 ~ # |
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> [....] |
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> Since I cannot get ndiswrapper working how would I go about getting |
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> ath_pci to work? |
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I'd check Stroller's advice ;-) |
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You could also look at: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Wireless |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:Hardware#Wireless |
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http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List |
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Sergio |
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