On 8/10/07, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted the following problem in my blog: > http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-0OCENX4haau1oA38TsiK4DP2YLk-?cq=1&p=104 > Realtek RTL8187 WiFi driver for Fedora 7 (August 10, 2007) > Originally, I had Debian Lenny/SID on my Neo laptop. When I had problems > compiling an important open source utility under Debian, I decided to > replace it with Fedora 7. The driver for Realtek RTL8187 WiFi from > sourceforge.net compiled and run successfully under Debian, The same source > code compiles without error on Fedora 7, but when run, it announces a lot of > undefined symbols. So RTL8187 support for Fedora from sourceforge does not > work. > > So I tried ndiswrapper, which compiles without warnings when I built a new > Fedora 7 kernel 2.6.22-1.41 that has no 4k kernel stack size limit. It seems > that Windows drivers will not work with 4k stack size limits of the normal > Linux kernel. So I installed ndiswrapper, downloaded some Windows drivers > for RTL8187, and installed one-by-one under ndiswrapper. None of the Windows > drivers worked. > > I need help from someone who has done this before. Any one?
I don't think I can help you with the ndiswrapper problem, but I'm curious about the other problem, the important open source utility that you couldn't compile under Debian. Maybe that's something that I can help you with. :) -- `..^..' eric pareja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) lpic-1 | software freedom for all |<(e)>| gnu linux python debian edu iosn localization tagalog filipino `..v..' foss internationalization usability pusakat philippines free "Ang mundo ay aklat, at iisang pahina lamang ang nababasa ng hindi naglalakbay." _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
