heads up on ndiswrapper

[Mark Haney]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> 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...
> 

I'll be glad to offer my services, especially in building RPMS for 
different archs, since I have several I manage anyway.



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