On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just some general comments: > > To know if your card is supported the best things to do is to check this > website: > > http://linuxwireless.org/ > ... > If Puredyne is missing software/firmware/modules for your card, please > check this website first so that you can point us to the right info > and we can see what is possible. > My netbook has a Realtek RTL8192E wifi card, not on that list. I've found ubuntuforums posts saying that ndiswrapper + the realtek xp driver works nicely. However, I can't build ndiswrapper. After tweaking ntoskernel.h to support all 2,6,31 kernels per http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1329979, I'm stuck on a compile error on init_MUTEX. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=48666&start=30 suggests applying patch-2.6.31.5-rt18: "ndiswrapper fails to fully build in 2.6.31.6 --look in my dotconfig and you will see where I disabled it-- owing to the fact that semaphore.h in 2.6.31.6 has had the part that declares init_MUTEX taken out. If this is a problem for you, then I suggest you grab the patch-2.6.31.5-rt18 patch from the rt subdir at kernel.org and use the 2.6.31.5 source with these same other patches applied; I compiled that as well, and it works great. Or, you could try taking the declaration and definition of init_MUTEX out of semaphore.h from 2.6.31.5 and sticking it back into semaphore.h in 2.6.31.6." So my questions are - will this patch be OK with puredyne? And if so, as I haven't tried to patch a linux kernel before, what commands? Thanks. James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world [email protected] http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman
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