Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 04:56, Nicholas Comino wrote:
That's a PCMCIA card (not PCI), will ndiswrapper result in pretty much the
same driver for the dwl-G520+??
Is that wireless driver solution as good as it gets?
The real trick with any wireless card is to sort out which chip set the
card uses. Also don't assume that two of the same model card has the
same chip set, check that they are the same versions. Vendors will use
different chip sets on the same model cards and slap a version number on
that denotes the change. This usually means you have to use different
drivers.
There are native drivers available for some chip sets like Atheros and
Prism chip sets. Others you have to use ndiswrapper which lets you use
the windows drivers for those chips sets (broadcom is an example).
So figure out which chip set the card uses then find the appropriate
driver for that chipset.
Also be aware that ndiswrapper now requires a minor kernel patch (with
kernels 2.6.9-1.724 and later) in order to compile.
If the kernel gang is listening, is there a reason you removed
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_nice);
from kernel/sched.c? That's what ndiswrapper wants (and one of the
reasons I asked about rebuilding modules and having them so darned big).
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