On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jeroen de Haas wrote: > >> There is a tutorial on setting up ndiswrapper on Fedora: >> http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna . This text assumes >> you have configured yum to use the livna repository (which does contain >> the ndiswrapper packages) as explained in >> http://fedoramobile.org/solved/post-install-solutions/yum-config/ . >> > I have very mixed feelings about using Windows drivers for much of > anything, perhaps too many urban legends about an IRQ coming in while the > driver is running in a privileged mode. There are new Broadcom drivers > coming in the future, but at the rate I see progress that might be after > the stock market gets back to 14000. :-( > > An alternate solution, which I'm using, is to buy a USB wireless modem > and use that. Clearly not the optimal solution, but one which avoids the > issues with running NDIS drivers. Which USB modem do you like? I have had mixed results and some still require ndiswrapper or other tricks. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
