On Friday 18 April 2008 00:07, Paul Bransford wrote:
> >> Let me venture a guess -- your laptop doesn't have a Broadcom wnic...
>
> NDISWRAPPER is not required for broadcom chips anymore, if you have the
> common chipset (bcm43xx) - see here: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de
>
> I've tested it out, and besides always reporting 100% signal strength,
> it works for what testing I've done (long before this and after deciding
> ndiswrapper was lame,
On my Compaq laptop, I tried and tried and tried to get the bcm43xx running
right. I got way too intimate with bcm-cutter or whatever that thing is to do
the firmware, I tried everything. Yeah, it worked. For five minutes at a time
til it froze the system.
I put ndiswrapper on the system, and it worked perfectly. Yeah, in a perfect
world I'd like a native driver, but back in the old days, it sure was nice to
know that if the native driver wouldn't work, you had a plan B with
ndiswrapper.
By the way, my Acer laptop it was trivial to get madwifi working with the
Atheros chip.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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