BCM43xx support?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Fri Feb 3 17:59:39 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:55 -0500, Jeff Buchbinder wrote:
> On 2/3/06, Mircea MITU <mmitu at bitdefender.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:48 -0800, scott_ubuntu at scott.tranzoa.net wrote:
> > > In short, the driver is still very immature and the mature ndiswrapper
> > > support for the device continues to exist.
> >
> >
> > AFAIK, ndiswrapper doesn't work on latest kernels
> 
> I'm using it on Dapper Drake (as recent as it gets) kernel 2.6.15-14;
> I just had to grab the source and recompile it, since there's a module
> dependency problem with the latest kernel image. Just build a copy of
> ndiswrapper 1.8.
> 
> Cisco's shoddy VPN client, on the other hand, freezes it solid. I used
> the same basic patch I had used on 2.6.12, but with no luck.

It still works but the kernel developers have made it clear that they
won't refrain from making future changes that would break ndiswrapper.

Lee




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