FC2 on AMD64 eMachine laptop

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Fri Jun 4 06:54:39 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 01:59, Jay Lee wrote:
> Chris, I'm considering one of these beasts for Dual boot purposes but
> would absolutely need wireless to work and don't feel like buying another
> 802.11b or such card.  Have you had any luck using ndiswrapper?  I'm aware
> that the FC2 4kstacks is an issue but my current toshiba P4M laptop has a
> broadcomm 802.11g wireless and I was able to get it working using a custom
> kernel (only change was switching back to 8k stacks).  Just curious if
> you've tried ndiswrapper on FC2 x86-64 yet.  Thanks for your work.
> 
> Jay

No can do in 64-bit mode. Ndiswrapper uses the Windows (32-bit) drivers.
There are no 64-bit drivers for that card, even for Windows.

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Chris Kloiber <ckloiber at ckloiber.com>





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