Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-09 Thread Beso
still you cannot use them at the same time you're using ndiswrapper for what i know you cannot use bcm43xx or any other linux modules and ndiswrapper with the same wireless interface at the same time but i still may be wrong 2007/10/9, Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Beso wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-09 Thread Mark Haney
Beso wrote: if you load at boot bcm43xx as hal should do, you have to unload them before using ndiswrapper. if you want to stop them from loading put: blacklist bcm43xx in this file: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and remember that you need also the firmware in /lib/firmware if you're using the bcm43

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-09 Thread Beso
if you load at boot bcm43xx as hal should do, you have to unload them before using ndiswrapper. if you want to stop them from loading put: blacklist bcm43xx in this file: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and remember that you need also the firmware in /lib/firmware if you're using the bcm43xx modules. f

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-08 Thread Mark Haney
Beso wrote: just compile these modules: Well after all is said and done, there was a new ndiswrapper ebuild sitting in portage this morning, so I emerged it and now everything works fine. But, I've got the bcm43xx modules up and running although I've not tried them yet. The reason I menti

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-08 Thread Barry Walsh
Mark Haney wrote: Nuitari wrote: One of the problems I had with ndiswrapper is that it would just suck 100% of the CPU and literally do nothing. iwlist scan would show nothing. I just tried bcm43xx and it worked, so I never tried to get ndiswrapper back On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Beso wrote: O

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-08 Thread Mark Haney
Nuitari wrote: One of the problems I had with ndiswrapper is that it would just suck 100% of the CPU and literally do nothing. iwlist scan would show nothing. I just tried bcm43xx and it worked, so I never tried to get ndiswrapper back On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Beso wrote: Okay, I'm game, can y

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-06 Thread Nuitari
From: Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper 1. if you don't have a 4318 and you won't need to connect to wpa_enterprise networks with ca certs and so on swit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-06 Thread Beso
1. if you don't have a 4318 and you won't need to connect to wpa_enterprise networks with ca certs and so on switch to the kernel drivers. are a lot better than ndiswrapper. the only things that fails is the 4318 module when trying to connect to a wpa_enterprise network that don't broadcast essid,

[gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper

2007-10-06 Thread Mark Haney
I just upgraded to 2.6.22-r8 and when I booted into it (after re-emerging ndiswrapper) I got a hardware error saying it couldn't set the device up (wlan0). I figured something was flaky with ndiswrapper, so I booted back into -r5 and tried loading my wireless again and I got the same error. I