Re: use of bcmwl5 on FC 5

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On Monday 24 April 2006 16:01, Randy Wyatt wrote:
>After struggling with Ubuntu and learning to rather despise it,  I
>switched back to FC5.
>
>I have read and followed the entire mail thread by Gene Heskett and
>others and have followed directions,  but there is still an error in
>dmesg after modprobe ndiswrapper.  It seems to indicate that the
>driver is not compatible with the system architecture.

I'm getting an error on the network start something about a bad var from 
something called RTNETLINK, but it works rather well despite that.  And 
its strange also in that I see it if I do a service network restart, 
but the error is not making it to the logs.

>  The other dual boot portion of the computer runs Windows XP Media
>Center Edition
>
>My question is does the Broadcom bcmwl5 driver work with ndiswrapper
> on x86_64.

Can't help, I'm on the i386 version of FC5, but I'm running the bcmwl5 
driver from the install of XP Home edition on this one.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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