On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:37 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: > > > On Feb 18, 2008 5:59 PM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 23:31 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 > > > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > BTW, > > > > > I am more interested to get things working. Quality > > would be my > > > > > second priority. > > > > > > > > As I said before, I did not have any problem > > (unfortunately, I cannot > > > > access the hardware now and check the bandwidth issue). > > > > > > I have not yet gotten the new driver to work, though > > admittedly I > > > didn't have much time to try and so went for ndiswrapper > > pretty > > > quickly. > > > > > > how did you get ndiswrapper to work? It worked for me for > > 2.6.23, but > > not for 2.6.24. I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some > trouble > > getting > > the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in > > the mean > > time. > > > > I guess there are some problems with ndiswrapper on kernel-2.4.26. > I > > didn't get ndiswraper worked with kernel-2.4.26. > > > Oh, I thought you meant ndis with 2.4.26. > > I mean kernel 2.6.24 !!
Whoops, that's what I meant I thought you meant :S > > did you tried kernel b43 module ?? Read below links, these may help > > you. > > > I use b44 for my eth0 (always have). The problem with ndiswrapper was > that b44 was grabbing wlan0 before ndis could. I couldn't ping over > the > wlan so I assumed b44 didn't work, but I was just playing around with > routes, and I have managed to get both eth0 and wlan0 working with b44 > together (no ndis). > > If you understood that sentence, congratulations! > > I understand little bit not fully. I didn't get how you managed > without b43 module ? would be great if you could explain that. OK, I made a mistake there too. b44 I use for eth0, *b43* was grabbing wlan0 before ndiswrapper could. I tried playing with b43 and the cutter tool, but it didn't work as I mentioned before. I had to use the old bcm43xx module. There were some kernel options to change, and a different cutter tool. I followed the instructions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_BCM43xx cya, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
