akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx said: > I am clueless about ndiswrapper and what it is use for. I can connect > to my wireless access point at home and to one at work and as far as I > know I have not used ndiswrapper. What am I missing? If you don't know and your WiFi stuff is already working, then you probably don't need it. :) > Is it for only certain wireless cards, or for certain environments > using wireless cards , or what? Basically, it allows you to use your Windows network card driver as a loadable driver under Linux by implementing a large portion of its kernel and NDIS interfaces. While this is not incredibly useful for cabled ethernet cards (a good majority, if not all, of these have native Linux drivers), it *is* useful in many situations such as with various wireless ethernet cards, which do not have native Linux drivers and do not have Linux support from the manufacturer in any way. While in most cases one can simply go out and buy replacement hardware, this is beneficial for those who use laptops or "built-in" wireless ethernet cards whose chipsets currently do not function natively under Linux. Many older (802.11b and earlier, like the Orinoco and Prism) cards are natively supported with open source drivers, and even some newer cards (like the Prism54 and Intel PRO/Wireless) are supported with open source drivers and binary-only firmware. > I will settle to be pointed to a document that explains all this. NdisWrapper's site[1] has some documentation you may like to look at. :) [1] http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Hope that helps! -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) This message was sent through a webmail interface, and thus not signed.
