fc5: wifi & ndiswrapper

[Josh Coffman]

Yeah, I've watched the threads on the fedora list, but
nothing seems to have been clarified for me.

I'm using and really liking FC5, but the ndiswrapper
seems to have taken a step backwards. Or at least
something with kernel modules. (the non-gpl thing
maybe?)

BTW, this is on a pavilion zv5440 with a broadcom
43xx. I will eventually try the bcm43xx driver.

Using either the livna ndiswapper packages or
compiling from source, I have the same problem. I
don't get an entry in modprob.conf unless I amnually
enter it. So system-network-config doesn't see
ndiswrapper(wlan0) as a type of wireless device it can
manage.

When I enter "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" in
modprob.conf, I can add wlan0 in sys-net-cfg but it
can't actually manage it and causes NetwrokManager to
lose control of it unless I remove and reinstall
ndiswrapper.

Anyone understand what is going on and how I could fix
it? I'm fine with using cli to manage it, but my
family uses it too.


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