Which PCI Wireless card

[Rick Stevens]

S. Bandyopadhyay wrote:
> 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

Ah, I was refering to the ndiswrapper-0.12 (latest release), not rc2 
(release candidate 2).

Still curious as to why that symbol was removed from export.  Seems
pretty innocuous to me.
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