heads up on ndiswrapper

[Knute Johnson]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 06.06.2007 06:39, Knute Johnson wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Does one of you two want to help maintaining the 1.46 version in livna?
> It has no proper maintainer currently.
>
> CU
> thl
>
>   
Thorsten:

So what does it take to be a maintainer?   What would my duties be?

Thanks,

knute...