On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 22:02 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Patrick wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 11:11 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [snip] > >> Am I upset?, yes. Apparently support for ndiswrapper has been removed, > > > > Removed from what? I have ndiswrapper running fine on my FC5 laptop with > > that crappy Broadcom radio. Came straight from the rpm.livna.org > > with "yum install ndiswrapper". If it is not available for > > FC4 I guess you could download the latest SRPM from that site and > > rebuild it yourself. > > > > Regards, > > Patrick > > In FC5, they've a new version of the driver in the latest kernels now, > and we are supposed to be able to make it work with the help of this > bcm43xx-fwcutter utility, so there are apparently no new > kmod-ndiswrapper modules for the newer kernels being made. Hasn't been > one since 2133 TBE. I'm aware of the new bcm43xx module/driver and I have tried to make it work. The problem I'm having is more with wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager than the kernel module although the kernel module could use some improvements. Afaik the folks working on it are making great progress so I guess a little patience is the name of the game. On my FC5 box I have the following ndiswrapper parts intalled: [patrick@werkstation ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ndis kmod-ndiswrapper-1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2139_FC5 ndiswrapper-1.18-1.lvn5 kmod-ndiswrapper-1.18-2.2.6.17_1.2145_FC5 The latest version of the ndiswrapper module and app and ntfs module for FC4 on rpm.livna.org are: http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4-1.18-1.lvn4.i686.rpm http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/ndiswrapper-1.18-1.lvn4.i386.rpm http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4-2.1.27-1.lvn4.i686.rpm > I followed the procedure thats supposed to make it work, but all I got > for my trouble was a lockup, complete and total, and it cost me several > hours and a boot to the ubuntu live cd to effect a transfer back to an > external radio via an ethernet cable. I keep waiting, and running > yumex 2-3x a day, hoping we'll get a new kmod-ntfs for the last 2 > kernels, but as of this morning, zip, nada, nothing. Have a look on the rpm.livna.org site and the links I gave. If for some odd reason your yum/yumex doesn't work properly, try installing them manually (but don't install FC4 rpms on your FC5 box and don't install FC5 rpms on your FC4 box). Regards, Patrick
