Re: NM and broadcom stuff with ndiswrapper

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 21:44, Darren Albers wrote:
>Unfortunately your first email was a little vague so nobody probably
>knew what to say...  I will take a stab at answering but it is likely
>that I am misdiagnosing your problem completely but here goes anyway!
>
>:-)
>
>I think the problem you are having is an issue with the version of
>NDISWrapper you have not fully supporting the latest WEXT.  From what
>I understand this was fixed and the NDISWrapper has full WEXT support
>in CVS.
>
>Because the NM devs did not want to support 15+ different cards they
>focused on supporting the Wireless Extensions (WEXT) standard and
>hoped to push developers to make their cards compliant.
>
>IF (Notice I said IF ;) ) this is your problem you have three options:
>1) Use the open-source driver from: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
>According to this page that driver works:
>http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware   *Note* Some members of
>the Ubuntuforums have reported that these drivers are somewhat slow.
>2) Update to the latest version of NDISWrapper

This might be helpfull, what repo do I enable in kyum to get that for an 
FC5 install, i386 version?

>3) Build Network Manager yourself but apply the patch that Robert Love
>posted back in march that adds specific support for NDISWrapper and
>MADWIFI drivers.
>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-March/msg00068
>.html
Failing the above, this last one may be of assistance.  What repo would 
I send yum after to get the srcs of NM that this patch applies to?

>I hope this helps!

I do too, and thanks a bunch.  Am I to understand that this is an 
ndiswrapper fix, and not related to driverloader from berlios.de?

>On 4/26/06, Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net> wrote:
>> On Thursday 20 April 2006 12:37, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> 6 days ago, and no reply?  I was recommended to take my questions
>> here, but I'm wondering if I'm in the right store here folks.
>>
>> >Greetings;
>> >
>> >Is there a snowballs chance of making this (NM) work?
>> >
>> >HP dv532us lappy, amd64 turion, i386 version of FC5 currently
>> > installed.
>> >
>> >Configured by hand, with fixed addresses all around my local home
>> >network, using the drivers from the XP install also on that disk,
>> > seems to work just fine.
>>
>> I've since reconfigured the home network to use dhcp, and it works
>> just fine if I do a service network start.  Do a stop, and start NM,
>> and there is no connection.
>>
>> Doing an iwconfig when NM is running discloses that the only thing
>> different between a working link and non-working link is that when
>> NM is running there is not a WEP key shown in the iwconfig output.
>>
>> Is this enough info to trigger a response?
>>
>> >But I have to haul it 900 miles to a job-site & live in a wifi
>> > equipt motel for a couple of months.  It would be nice to just
>> > start NM and have it find and configure it to work there.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>> People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the
>> word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
>> stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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-- 
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.