az., 2010.eko otsren 10a 04:02(e)an, James Harkins(e)k idatzi zuen:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
<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 <http://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?

correct me if i am wrong but i dont think you have to build ndiswrapper yourself. it comes with puredyne (doesnt it??). I can do without errors
$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
so I guess it is already there...

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