Orinoco Gold 8470-WD on CF4

[David Cary Hart]

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 09:36 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> David Cary Hart wrote:
> > 
> > An alternative to MadWiFi is ndiswrapper which facilitates the use of
> > Windows drivers. Having used both on Atheros for some time, I get VASTLY
> > improved performance with ndiswrapper (YMMV). Ndiswrapper is available
> > from the Dag repo. The source and docs are here:
> > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Unfortunately, when I tried ndiswrapper with the D-Link card, I kept 
> finding new and interesting ways to crash the kernel.
> 
I use a vanilla kernel with 8k stacks for ndiswrappers. Then I added
netprofile=wireless to the grub command line for that kernel after
setting up the "wireless" profile. 

YMMV but I have found that the performance is is astonishingly better
than I get with madwifi. 
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