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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Can ndiswrapper be included in Fedora????

From: Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:19:18 -0500

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Gregory Gulik wrote:

I am forced to use ndiswrapper for a built-in wireless card in my laptop and almost everyone else I know who runs Fedora on their laptops needs to use ndiswrapper for wireless as well. Very few chipsets "just work" in Fedora.

I know that the drivers can't be included but is there any reason the ndiswrapper driver isn't included in Fedora????

It would make things a LOT easier for a LOT of people to not have to re-build it every time the kernel is updated.
Just a thought...

Building ndiswrapper is not complex. It's not more than 40 seconds on a 200 Mhz Pentium II. A fast machine should be able to build it in 4 or 5 seconds. Then a quick 'modprobe ndiswrapper' and one is all set. Seems pretty easy to me. And yes I actually am using ndiswrapper-0.12rc3 on a 200 Mhz Pentium II system.

Bob