Re: [Haifux] NdisWrapper, anyone?
Hello again. It may look as if I'm talking with myself here, but the truth is that I got several replies in private, again. This time the word was that NdisWrapper should be the last resource. So now I get it: I didn't ask a stupid question. I wanted to discuss shrimp salad recipes in a synagogue. Many of you make them at home, but nobody wants to admit that openly. ;) So let's clam down about this, OK? NdisWrapper isn't against open source drivers, since it's a hack solution which can never install automatically: It requires finding the Windows files by hand. So for a distribution, only native drivers are to choose. But as an ad-hoc solution, it's fantastic. For those who want their computers working, that is. Anyhow, thanks to those who tried to help. As I implied earlier, I don't really know why I began messing with wireless, since I don't have any use of it right now. The interesting issue for me was that a catch-all solution exists, even if it pollutes the kernel with yuck-yuck proprietary code. So, to wrap this little saga up, I detail my own experience. Short version: It was easy. --- First, I tried yum install ndiswrapper. Was that optimistic, or what? Not in Red Hat's repositories, it wasn't. So I downloaded a tarball from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ (that's the way I really like it). And I ran yum install kernel-devel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 (just kernel-devel would be enough for those who are ready to upgrade their kernel at the same time). Would you believe that I ran a computer without its kernel sources on it? And then simply make from the project's home directory. And make install as root. No, there was no autoconfigure. And then ndiswrapper -i Rt2500.inf And the driver was installed: [r...@rouge ~]# ndiswrapper -l rt2500 : driver installed device (1814:0201) present (alternate driver: rt2500pci) Are these guys nice or what? They actually tell me that I shouldn't need to work with their utility (assuming that the real driver is OK, which it isn't). I should mention, that the card is a RaLink RT2500, which has drivers with several branches. (one of which was loaded automatically from the very beginning). There's also an official driver from Edimax. So odds are, that I would get the thing working if I cared to try which one works. But really, that wasn't the point. Thank you all, again. Eli Eli Billauer wrote: Hello again, For the first time ever, I got several replies in private, and only one on-list. I think that means you asked a stupid question, but I wouldn't like to embarrass you in front of everyone. So thanks to those who replied. And I suppose I'll read the HOWTO and get the thingy working. Unless someone else thinks this is an interesting topic. Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
[Haifux] NdisWrapper, anyone?
Hello, For some reason, which is beyond me, I decided to try my wireless card under FC9. It took me a couple of hours to realize that it's most likely a Linux driver issue (reading the sources of netplugd turned out helpful). But that's not the issue. While trying to solve the problem, it occurred to me, that there is a utility named ndiswrapper, which allows Linux to use the Windows driver. I suppose it's a bit like mplayer using Windows' codec DLLs (give or take userspace vs. kernelspace?) In other words: There is no such thing as no driver for Linux. At least not for wireless cards (or any network card?) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper Question: Does anyone have any experience with this utility? Even better, can anyone give a step-by-step hands-on lecture on how to get the #%...@# card working? Don't tell me to do it. I'm well over my quota of Haifux lectures. Eli -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] NdisWrapper, anyone?
Hi Eli, On 1/19/09, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Question: Does anyone have any experience with this utility? Even better, can anyone give a step-by-step hands-on lecture on how to get the #%...@# card working? I have some experience and I can talk about it if it's desired, but before that, you didn't tell us what's your WLAN card's model. In addition to that, did you try working with Fedora 10 instead (or simply update FC9's kernel via the update system of Fedora)? FC9 had some WLAN issues which were solved in Fedora 10 Adir ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] NdisWrapper, anyone?
Hello again, For the first time ever, I got several replies in private, and only one on-list. I think that means you asked a stupid question, but I wouldn't like to embarrass you in front of everyone. So thanks to those who replied. And I suppose I'll read the HOWTO and get the thingy working. Unless someone else thinks this is an interesting topic. Eli On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il mailto:e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hello, ... Question: Does anyone have any experience with this utility? Even better, can anyone give a step-by-step hands-on lecture on how to get the #%...@# card working? -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] NdisWrapper, anyone?
On the contrary, I replied personally, not to expose _my_ poor answer. -- yotam On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: ... I think that means you asked a stupid question, but I wouldn't like to embarrass you in front of everyone. ... ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
