[Coco] Fedora Core 6 on a M305CRV Gateway laptop

[Frank Pittel]

As a long time linux user and advocate I have no problem with
reading about a windows user setting up and using linux. However
this thread is WAY off topic on this list and before people start
complaining those involved may want to consider finding a way to take
it off list.

Frank

PS - this is neither a complaint nor request. Just a friendly heads
     up about what's going to be coming up soon



On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:27:41PM +0100, Manny wrote:
> Roger Taylor wrote:
> >At 02:22 PM 7/24/2007, you wrote:
> >>Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>Brian
> >>>>FWIW, I've had good luck with an unsupported Linksys card under Fedora
> >>>>using ndiswrapper.
> >>>Most linksys cards are using the Atheros chipset, and that is 
> >>>supported by native linux drivers quite well.  Its the broadcom radio 
> >>>corp chipsets that are the bad boys.
> >>
> >>I happen to have a broadcom stuck in this Dell of mine. Good thing 
> >>there is an ndiswrapper... :)
> >>
> >>Speaking of Linksys, I just put one in to my wife's computer. Had to 
> >>ndiswrapper that one as well.
> >>
> >>Both computers running Ubuntu, although she's not upgraded to 
> >>Feisty... Yet!
> >
> >
> >Ok, I think this is the page showing all of the compatible devices, with 
> >links to the Windows drivers.  I also need to learn how to actually get 
> >ndiswrapper to do what it's supposed to do without me having to compile 
> >anything myself or rebuild the kernel. :)
> >
> >http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list_b/ 
> >
> >
> >Many to the rescue again?  :)
> 
> Ubuntu has a package for ndiswrapper (actually called 
> ndiswrapper-utils). I prefer to compile it for myself, though, because 
> their version is a bit outdated.
> 
> It easy to compile ndiswrapper, though:
> 
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
> 
> The next part is tricky because it depends on the Windows drivers you 
> are using. For me it was a:
> 
> $ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
> $ sudo ndiswrapper -m
> 
> Your *.inf file will obviously be different unless you are using the 
> same card (or make, I guess) as me.
> 
> Depending on how your distro does things (this applies to Edgy, but not 
> Feisty), you may have to tell ndiswrapper a little more (you don't have 
> to use gedit... I don't):
> 
> $ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
> 
> Change the one line in that file to read:
> 
> alias eth1 ndiswrapper
> 
> Note that this may be different from how your distro handles things!
> 
> Anyway, now it's time to load the ndiswrapper module:
> 
> $ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
> 
> So, your wireless should now work! There maybe a few other things that 
> you need to do, but you should at least have your wireless driver 
> working now.
> 
> Obviously, you Fedora heads out there can correct anything that will 
> probably be wrong. ;)
> 
> -M.
> 
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco