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wahaha
29th August 2006, 08:28 PM
halo... i did found out a link about installation of ndiswrapper as below:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking#Com mon_Wireless_Networking_Terms


I am getting confuse when i read the part "NICS that are Incompatible with ndiswrapper"

NICs that are Incompatible with ndiswrapper
The ndiswrapper module works by assuming that the Linux operating system does not recognize the NIC card. If Linux does recognize the card, then ndiswrapper won't load correctly. The ndiswrapper -l command will list installed drivers, there will be ndiswrapper entries in the /var/log/messages file but the dmesg command won't mention the status of the ndiswrapper module loading process at all and activating the wlan0 interface will fail.


From the statement above, is that means I cannot activate my wlan0 interface if my linux able to recognise card ???

If yes, how should i go to solve this problem in order to activate the wlan0 interface and connect to internet ???

Jman
2nd September 2006, 03:09 AM
What wireless card do you have?

I would think that if your wireless has Linux drivers it would be better to use those.

If you do need ndiswrapper I recommend a Fedora specific guide like this (http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/ndis-yum-livna).