ndiswrapper?

[thully at umich.edu]

Yes, the source and user utils is included, but it should be in Ubuntu main
and precompiled, so it is easier for users to install.
Quoting Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>:

> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 21:29 -0500, thully at umich.edu wrote:
> > I wondered if any people are considering the inclusion of ndiswrapper in
> hoary?
> > I don't need it, but there are wi-fi cards that only work using it.
> > Is this being looked in to.
>
> daniels at catsby:~% apt-cache show ndiswrapper-utils
> Package: ndiswrapper-utils
> Priority: optional
> Section: misc
> Installed-Size: 104
> Maintainer: Andres Salomon <dilinger at voxel.net>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: ndiswrapper
> Version: 0.11-1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), perl
> Suggests: ndiswrapper-source
> Filename: pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils_0.11-1_i386.deb
> Size: 20090
> MD5sum: 9e01942cf369019284791f7fa628373f
> Description: Userspace utilities for ndiswrapper
>  Some wireless LAN vendors refuse to release hardware specifications or
>  drivers for their products for operating systems other than Microsoft
>  Windows. NdisWrapper makes it possible to use such hardware with Linux
> by
>  means of a loadable kernel module that "wraps around" NDIS (Windows
> network
>  driver API) drivers.
>  .
>  This package contains the userspace tools. You will also need the
> kernel
>  module package.
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