[Lilux-help] Centrino WLAN with ndiswrapper

[Pascal Steichen]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:00:04PM +0100, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> 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.

Yes I got 2.6, read the README before installing !!

> 
> > 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? ;-)

Already did, found a petition time ago where I signed !

> 
> > will try the new intel based project http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ now ;)
> 
> Hmm... reportedly it'll work even less than ndiswrapper...

Oh, bad :(

> 
> pessimistic greetings, Eric

don't worry be happy ;)

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