F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

[John W. Linville]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:04:20PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 11:31 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >   
> >> On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a
> >>>> Marvell TopDog wifi chip.  I have obtained the
> >>>> latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper
> >>>> to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and
> >>>> it at first appears to be working... although there
> >>>> are crash data appearing in the log files but other
> >>>> than that, it continues on working.
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> I'm sorry, but I can't offer you any support for ndiswrapper.  Did you
> >>> try the mwl8k driver?
> >>>
> >>> John
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> No I have not tried this driver...  where can I get it?
> >>     
> > It's part of the Fedora kernel.  Also make sure the linux-firmware
> > package is installed.
> >
> > While testing mwl8k, you will want to remove ndiswrapper so as to
> > avoid interference with the in-kernel driver.
> >
> > John
> >   
> I have looked on F12 repos and I cannot find this driver but
> I did find this driver for F13.  The problem is, I need this for
> F12.  Is this driver available for F12?  If so, can you give me
> a clue what to look for and now this driver is to be installed
> and configured, please?

What kernel are you using?  It is part of the kernel package, not a
separate driver.

Please attach the output of running 'lspci -n'.  It seems mwl8k may
not work for much "consumer" hardware.

John
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