[Lilux-help] Centrino WLAN with ndiswrapper

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi Pascal,

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Pascal Steichen wrote:

> Got this centrino laptop with GNU/Linux (Fedora) which is fighting
> around with the intel pro 2100 wlan card.
> Tried ndiswrapper : driver installed correctly, module however got
> problems.

Are you using a 2.6 kernel? AFAIK ndiswrapper needs one of those.

> dmesg shows the following :
>
> ndiswrapper version 0.5 loaded
> ndiswrapper adding w70n51.sys
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00620061
[snip]
> looks really bad, might need some kernel hacking :( ! Anyone any
> solution ideas ??

Maybe ask Intel nicely for a driver? ;-)

> will try the new intel based project http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ now ;)

Hmm... reportedly it'll work even less than ndiswrapper...

pessimistic greetings, Eric