[Bug 105013] Re: Feature Request: Support NDIS 6 (Windows Vista family) WiFi drivers

[Christopher M. Penalver]

Julian Andres Klode, thanks for commenting to this.

It appears that Won't Fix would work better here, given it's a live
issue that would help folks if implemented, but it's not going to happen
via downstream maintainership, given the previously mentioned downstream
scope. Also, the stated WORKAROUND here unfortunately is buy different
hardware.

This allows the discussion to continue, but downstream maintainers and
developers are moving on to other things.

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Title:
  Feature Request: Support NDIS 6 (Windows Vista family) WiFi drivers

Status in ndiswrapper:
  Unknown
Status in ndiswrapper package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Presently, Windows Vista family drivers (which use NDIS version 6) are
  not supported by Ubuntu using the ndiswrapper software.  The
  particular WiFi solution that I have has a buggy native Linux driver,
  and, as far as I can tell, no pre-Vista drivers at all (this card is
  OEM for HP workstations).

  Information on the card itself, though not directly relevant, can be
  found in bug 104382 if needed.

  In any case, when an attempt is made to install the Vista driver,
  ndiswrapper complains of unknown symbols.  The driver is an NDIS 6
  driver, which is unsupported at present.  Without having a pre-Vista
  driver available for this hardware, I am kind of stuck either running
  Windows Vista or putting up with intermittent and horribly slow
  functionality under Linux.  While I would rather do the latter, the
  current lack of functionality prevents me from doing a lot of things
  (such as regularly scheduled rsync backups to my in-house server and
  printing on the LAN).  Of course, I can do these things if I move the
  computer to an area with wires and use the wired connection.

  I will be attaching the list of unknown symbols reported by
  ndiswrapper; hopefully, they can be of some assistance in finding out
  how to make them work.

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