[gentoo-amd64] Re: latest kernel and ndiswrapper

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
47078B2D.7020400@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Sat, 06 Oct 2007
09:18:37 -0400:

> I just upgraded to 2.6.22-r8 and when I booted into it (after
> re-emerging ndiswrapper) I got a hardware error saying it couldn't set
> the device up (wlan0).  I figured something was flaky with ndiswrapper,
> so I booted back into -r5 and tried loading my wireless again and I got
> the same error. I've been consistently using my wireless under this
> kernel for weeks and not had a problem.  Is this an ndiswrapper issue?
> Or a kernel issue with -r8 that's screwed up my wireless?

I'm guessing the wrapper has to be compiled to the kernel it's running 
with.  It may be that the -r5 and -r8 kernels are far enough apart to 
trigger that.  Since you remerged the wrapper with -r8 and it didn't work 
(for whatever reason), it wouldn't necessarily work with -r5 either, even 
tho it was before, since it had been freshly merged against -r8 and not -
r5.

So... try booting into -r5, remerging ndiswrapper again there, and then 
loading /that/ version.

Next time, since ndiswrapper is partially proprietary, it's probably 
worth saving your known-working package (using quickpkg) before trying to 
upgrade anything involving it.  If you had done that with the working 
version built against -r5, when you returned to -r5, you could have 
remerged the working binary package you saved manually.

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