ndiswrapper with 2.6.24 kernels

[Rick Bilonick]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 07:58 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Boris Glawe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > has anybody successfully installed the freshrpm's dkms-ndiswrapper package?
> > 
> > The installation itself is not the problem, but the kernel module 
> > compilation fails.
> > 
> > The kernel modules was usually compiled and properly installed with the 
> > execution of "/etc/init.d/dkms start". This command still does not show 
> > any error messages, but after returning after some seconds of operation, 
> > there's no kernel module in /lib/modules/`uname -r` which is confirmed 
> > by modprobe : "FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."
> > 
> > Nobody's reporting any problems?! How are you using ndiswrapper WLAN 
> > adapters with F8 and 2.6.24.x kernels?
> > 
> > Thanks and greets
> > Boris
> > 
> 
> 
> IIRC (and I've been on vacation, so my brain hasn't caught up yet), 
> Linus himself got involved with the NDISwrapper code being GPL'd.  He 
> put the kibosh on exporting the symbols needed to load it since in his 
> mind it CAN'T be GPL if it loads non-GPL binaries.  IANAL, so take that 
> how you will. The thread was on Slashdot a couple weeks ago.  It's my 
> understanding that ndiswrapper is broken in the .24 kernels and hasn't 
> been fixed yet.
> 
> Granted, it's also my understanding the new WIFI stack is supposed to 
> have much better support for cards in .24, but I can't say for certain yet.
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 
> Mark Haney
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> 
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> 

I'm using ndiswrapper with this kernel:

[chippy at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.24.3-50.fc8

But I'm using Livna's packages.

Rick B.