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

["dell core2duo" <gentoomail.dell@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.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@unlimitedmail.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.
did you tried kernel b43 module ??  Read below links, these may help you.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43?action=show&redirect=en%2Fusers%2FDrivers%2Fbcm43xx

regards,
flukebox





>
> When I load ndiswrapper (yes I've rebuilt it :) I get no wlan0 like I
> used to.
>
> thanks,
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