Can ndiswrapper be included in Fedora????

[Robert L Cochran]

Hi Rahul

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>Hi
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>>Building ndiswrapper is not complex. It's not more than 40 seconds on a
>>200 Mhz Pentium II.
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>oh yes. it is. it is incompatible with 4k stacks for many drivers.
>disabling 4 stacks would have other performance related side effects.
>someone will have to be assigned to maintain that package and fix all
>bugs related to this for supporting proprietary windows drivers. how
>does that match fedora's goal in ANY way
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>Regards,
>Rahul Sundaram
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What my post is saying is that the time required to build (compile) 
ndiswrapper is insignificant. 40 seconds at most is nothing. The 
original poster is simply annoyed that he has to recompile with each 
kernel update. He isn't complaining about compatibility issues.

On that subject I agree with you, I am sure ndiswrapper is incompatible 
with a wide array of drivers...but I see this as mainly growing pains 
for the ndiswrapper project. Their developers will no doubt fix the 
issue when they have time. Meanwhile, ndiswrapper works great with the 
drivers that came with my Buffalo card. If I'm not using that then the 
prism54.org driver I use for my Intersil chipset-based cards is always 
there, so I'm covered either way.

Bob