Which PCI Wireless card
S. Bandyopadhyay
sbandy at umd.edu
Fri Jan 14 21:44:14 UTC 2005
On 2005-01-14, 13:39 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 04:56, Nicholas Comino wrote:
> >
> >
> > > That's a PCMCIA card (not PCI), will ndiswrapper result in pretty much
> > > the same driver for the dwl-G520+??
> > >
> > > Is that wireless driver solution as good as it gets?
> >
> >
> > The real trick with any wireless card is to sort out which chip set the
> > card uses. Also don't assume that two of the same model card has the
> > same chip set, check that they are the same versions. Vendors will use
> > different chip sets on the same model cards and slap a version number on
> > that denotes the change. This usually means you have to use different
> > drivers.
> >
> > There are native drivers available for some chip sets like Atheros and
> > Prism chip sets. Others you have to use ndiswrapper which lets you use
> > the windows drivers for those chips sets (broadcom is an example).
> >
> > So figure out which chip set the card uses then find the appropriate
> > driver for that chipset.
>
> Also be aware that ndiswrapper now requires a minor kernel patch (with
> kernels 2.6.9-1.724 and later) in order to compile.
>
> If the kernel gang is listening, is there a reason you removed
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_nice);
>
> from kernel/sched.c? That's what ndiswrapper wants (and one of the
> reasons I asked about rebuilding modules and having them so darned big).
are you sure? with ndiswrapper-1.0rc2 and kernel-2.6.10* you
don't need it anymore. from the ChangeLog:
* task_nice is not used anymore, so should compile with
kernels where this is not exported
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