OT Mini-RANT: fc5: wifi & ndiswrapper

[Josh Coffman]

--- Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at 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 at 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.

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