Re: On ndiswrapper

2011-05-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 12:55 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >> I have been trying to get an ancient Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card > >> working under ndiswrapper, but I discovered after some "research" > >> that ndiswrapper did not cr

Re: On ndiswrapper

2011-05-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
Craig White wrote: >> I have been trying to get an ancient Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card >> working under ndiswrapper, but I discovered after some "research" >> that ndiswrapper did not create *.conf files >> matching the ID 0342:0006 of my card (as listed

Re: On ndiswrapper

2011-05-23 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 15:09 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have been trying to get an ancient Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card > working under ndiswrapper, but I discovered after some "research" > that ndiswrapper did not create *.conf files > matching the ID 0342:0006 of my ca

On ndiswrapper

2011-05-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have been trying to get an ancient Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card working under ndiswrapper, but I discovered after some "research" that ndiswrapper did not create *.conf files matching the ID 0342:0006 of my card (as listed by lshal). The nearest file provided by ndiswrapper is 0411:0

Re: Using ndiswrapper

2011-05-22 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 02:17 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > In fact, I'm not sure what "firmware" is. > Is there a standard definition of firmware? Is there a standard definition of anything in computing? ;-) It's partway between hardware and software. Generally speaking, it's the upgradeable pr

Using ndiswrapper

2011-05-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
I've been trying to use an Orinoco Classic Gold WiFi card with Fedora-14, and have concluded that this is impossible, at least with the standard orinoco_cs driver. So I'm trying ndiswrapper. As far as I can see, I need to abstract the firmware in some way from the Windows driver, but I

Re: ndiswrapper

2010-11-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 09:03:46 -0500, Lee wrote: > FC14 missing ndiswrapper. Should I try old b43 kernel mod? It should just work. There is open firmware available for it and I believe it is installed by default. Take a look at the b43-openfwwf package. -- users mailing list us

ndiswrapper

2010-11-07 Thread Lee
FC14 missing ndiswrapper. Should I try old b43 kernel mod? Lee -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 01:48 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > modinfo mwl8k $ modinfo mwl8k filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32.19-163.fc12.i686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.ko license:GPL author: Lennert Buytenhek version:0.10 description:Marvell TOPDOG(R) 802.11 Wireless Net

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 01:46 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:35:31PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: >> >>> lspci -n >>> >> # lspci -n >> 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) >> 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) >> 00:1b

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:38:02PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > What kernel are you using? > # uname -r > 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686 mwl8k is enabled on that kernel. You can verify that it is present by running 'modinfo mwl8k'. -- John W. Li

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:35:31PM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > > lspci -n > # lspci -n > 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) > 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) > 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01) > 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01) > 00:1c.1 0604:

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > What kernel are you using? # uname -r 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.i686 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraprojec

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 12:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > lspci -n # lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02) 00:02.0 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01) 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:27d2 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
t;>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a > >>>> Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the > >>>> latest drive

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
;>> >>>> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a >>>> Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the >>>> latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper >>>> to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and >>>> it

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
g wifi chip. I have obtained the > >> latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper > >> to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and > >> it at first appears to be working... although there > >> are crash data appearing in the log files but other &g

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/30/2010 07:49 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a >> Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the >> latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrap

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:55:43AM -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a > Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the > latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper > to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and > it a

Re: F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-29 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
On 08/29/2010 10:55 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a > Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the > latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper > to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and > it at first appears to be work

F12/13: Ndiswrapper, topdog Wifi, Thunderbird & network degradation...

2010-08-29 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
I have a gateway M-6750 laptop which sports a Marvell TopDog wifi chip. I have obtained the latest drivers for this chip, and used ndiswrapper to hook itself to the XP/Vista topdog driver, and it at first appears to be working... although there are crash data appearing in the log files but other

Re: Ndiswrapper does not start during boot/network. Requires manual starts?

2010-08-28 Thread Mohamed El Morabity
ronize > as a clue. > > However, once up, I can log in as a user, I have to > open a gnome terminal and issue the following > commands: > > # depmod -a > # modprobe ndiswrapper > > What I'd like to ask, is this normally how ndiswrapper > works? Is it possible

Ndiswrapper does not start during boot/network. Requires manual starts?

2010-08-28 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
the following commands: # depmod -a # modprobe ndiswrapper What I'd like to ask, is this normally how ndiswrapper works? Is it possible to get ndiswrapper to start as it boots? I have saved wireless connection into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts but this does not seem to work because ndiswr