heads up on ndiswrapper

[Knute Johnson]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I don't use ndiswrapper on F7 (yet?).  I did set up Ubuntu on a
> notebook with ndiswrapper.
>
> I found that the then-current ndiswrapper version, 1.43, did not work.
> I then used the repository version, and that didn't work.  Then I let
> the author of ndiswrapper to log into my machine and he fixed the
> problem (I am truly grateful).  He then adopted those fixes (or
> perhaps something better).
>
> I would strongly recommend using 1.46 which has those fixes and
> others.  Especially if you have a multi-core CPU.  Read the
> description of the changes here:
>   http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
>
> Livna seems to be distributing 1.43 in
>   http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/7/x86_64/
> Is that what people are using?
>   
I've got one USB network device that wouldn't work with 1.43 so I 
removed the Livna ndiswrapper and downloaded, compiled and installed 
1.46.  That fixed the problems with the device.

knute...