If you wanna use wireless on the c2d Macbook, you must use 2.6.18.6. Ndiswrapper do not work with 2.6.19.1, which is needed for the new Atheros wlan card.
cu Edgar (gimli) Hucek Sheer El-Showk wrote: > hi all, > > I hope I'm not being lazy by asking this but I found it quite hard to > find up-to-date info on the mactel patchsets. I recently installed > Ubuntu on a new MBP core 2 duo machine several things don't work: > > - Sound > - Touchpad (only single button and very jerky) > - Wireless (works but can't connect properly - might be base station's > problem) > > It seems like I need to do a kernel upgrade to get good support e.g. > the touchpad (from an earlier discussion on this forum). I'm planning > to use 2.6.19.1 since this is the latest stable kernel. Is there any > good reason to use an different version? > > Also, I found the patch files in: > > http://mactel-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mactel-linux/trunk/kernel/mactel-patches-2.6.19/ > > Will these patches work against 2.16.19.1? Do I have to install all > the patch files or only specific ones (are some hardware specific)? > Why isn't there a single patch file containing all the patches? Is > there anywhere with more documentation about this? Sorry if I'm > asking questions that are already answered elsewhere. > > Just out of curiousity why aren't these patches just merged into the > main kernel trunk? > > cheers, > Sheer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
