[lug] Linux and wireless

Karl Grill kegrill at comcast.net
Mon Jan 23 23:18:35 MST 2006


Daniel Webb wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:21:11PM -0700, Craig Talbert wrote:
> 
> 
>>AFAIK the ndiswrapper works for most popular wireless devices:
>>
>>http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>The wiki has a list of cards known to work:
>>
>>http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List
> 
> 
> Has anyone used this heavily?  I haven't tried it, and it may be great, but
> the skeptic in me says: "glue buggy Windows drivers on top of an emulation
> layer?  You must be joking."
> 

About 2 years ago, I used ndiswrapper on a Toshiba laptop running Gentoo 
  (2.4 kernel) and had no problems with it.  Haven't had the laptop for 
over a year now, so I don't remember which chipset/driver it used.

Not necessarily the best solution, but it worked.

Karl
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