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 -- John W. Linville The truth will set you free, but first it will linville@xxxxxxxxxx make you miserable. -- James A. Garfield -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
