----- Start Original Message ----- From: Ryan Finnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RLUG] Gentoo on laptop
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Sam Phillips wrote: > > > Unfortunately it looks like ndiswrapper is pretty dumb about 64bit. > > Yeah, 64bit nsiwrwapper cannot use a 32bit ndis driver for the same reason > that 64bit mplayer cannot use win32codecs (though for the latter you can > run a 32bit mplayer in a chroot). > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, at 19:31 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I am at a loss why someone would put together a 64 bit > >> system intended to only run a 32 bit OS and software. > > Do you have the urge to allocate >4GB of a memory to a process? If not, > most of the reason for using a 64bit OS are gone. In fact, running a > 32bit OS on a 64bit amd64 processor is probably going to be slightly > faster than a 64bit OS for many things. > I had thought that 64 bit processing was more than simply more addressable RAM. Am I wrong? > >> I know I could just compile a 32 version of Linux and run, but I would > >> rather just wait to see the 64 bit drivers show up. > > For broadcom? I wouldn't hold your breath. Instead, I'd be more willing > to guess that the next thing will happen is a Windows "X64" driver will be > released by broadcom, which should work with a 64bit-compiled version of > ndiswrapper. > > RF > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > ----- End Original Message ----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
