Re: OT Mini-RANT: fc5: wifi & ndiswrapper

--- Josh Coffman <josh_coffman@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> --- Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Craig White wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 16:14 -0700, Darrin
> Chandler
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >><disclaimer>
> > >>This broadcom card is probably something you've
> > had laying around for
> > >>ages, and you're just trying to get it to work.
> > Josh, this isn't
> > >>*really* aimed *directly* at you... (unless it
> > applies)
> > >></disclaimer>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >while I would agree with you, this doesn't
> exactly
> > help Josh who
> > >probably bought this laptop before he was savvy
> > about Linux and
> > >hardware.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I realize that this may not be Josh's choice,
> hence
> > the disclaimer. I
> > can't really help much with getting it working.
> Last
> > time I used
> > ndiswrapper it worked fine from source (then I got
> > disgusted with myself
> > and exchanged the wifi card for one with a chipset
> > from a vendor with a
> > clue). Seems like this is a minor FC5 problem.
> >

> > -- 
> > Darrin Chandler            |  Phoenix BSD Users
> > Group
> > dwchandler@stilyagin.com   | 
> > http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
> > http://www.stilyagin.com/  |

> >
>
> First, my financial cheapness not only inclines me
> to
> stick with the built in wifi over buying another
> card,
> it's a lesser part of why I'm linux user now.
>
> I do understand the source of the mini-rant. I will
> be
> trying to get the bcm43xx drivers working at some
> point. Just don't have time right now.
>
> I do have ndiswrapper working from cli; installed
> either from source or from the livna packages. There
> does seem to be some modprobe/kernel module problem
> with FC5 other than the non-GPL restriction. It just
> doesn't want to setup wlan0 correctly so that
> system-network-config or NetworkManager can manage
> it.
> Both of these worked fine in FC4 with WEP-128. Never
> tried wpa with it.
>
> A new card isn't necessary in my case. This is just
> a
> nuissance with FC5; which I am otherwise pleased
> with.
>
> ╔══╗
> ║ j≈
> ╚══╝
>
>
>
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And yes I bought the latop before I migrated to linux.
//not that it matters for the kernel mod prob.

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