Wireless sources?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Apr 17 13:41:22 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 22:18 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> >>
> >>It's a Linksys WPC54G Ver. 1.2 card.
>
> > That is the Broadcom chipset which works well with ndiswrapper, but you
> > want linux drivers so it will be a no-go.
>
> ndiswrapper seems to be a popular solution. Maybe I'm misunderstanding
> something....
> - allows use of Windows driver (undermines efforts to get Linux drivers)
yes
> - requires new ndiswrapper install with every kernel update, therefore
> must synch kernel updates with ndiswrapper updates. That is, must d/l
> new ndiswrapper before switching to new kernel.
>
No
You do have to recompile ndiswrapper with every kernel update since it
is a module and has to match the kernel. You do not have to redownload
ndiskwrapper unless there is an update to ndiswrapper.
What I do is install the kernel update, then recompile/install
ndiswrapper. I had looked at, and even used, Linuxant's driverloader
package but decided that ndiswrapper seems to work as well or better so
I am no longer paying for the driverloader package ($20 per machine).
I much prefer using FOSS drivers, but as yet I have found no 802.11g
cards that have open source drivers. So I compromised and use
ndiswrapper for my laptop with an AirLink card and the Broadcom
chipset.
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