2.6.22 kernel and WiFi
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Jul 17 15:08:25 UTC 2007
Karl Larsen wrote:
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> I show my ignorance here but I sure thought you treat the ndiswrapper
> file as a module for the kernel and you have to install it into a new
> kernel. I know Fedora sends RPM packed kernel modifications and I have
> no idea how those work!
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> In my kernel work days we had to compile the kernel AND the modules.
> I think you still have to but it is done at Red Hat and they send all
> the stuff as binary files in the RPM. To you it means the ndiswrapper
> was compiled into a kernel. If you change to another kernel you will
> need to do it again.
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> Karl
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Karl, I probably should explain a little more about my setup. I
inquired about the .22 kernel and the wireless stack changes because my
laptop uses ndiswrapper for the broadcom driver (64-bit). I neglected
to mention that I'm not using Fedora on this laptop as i felt like this
wasn't necessary to mention. I wanted some insight into the new stack
in the kernel, which (in my mind) seemed distro agnostic. That said,
everything you say is correct, any time I move to a new kernel I have to
rebuild ndiswrapper for that kernel. What I was afraid of, was that
ndiswrapper would have issues with the new stack (for whatever reason).
I can find out on my own by building the .22 kernel, but I like having
an idea of what I"m up against before I do that.
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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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