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

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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
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