ndiswrapper in cd

Tres Seaver tseaver at zope.com
Mon Feb 28 15:42:56 UTC 2005


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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:28:00PM -0500, Seandq wrote:
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|>I agree one-hundred percent with you, sir. I'll do all in my power to
|>see if ndiswrapper on the next CD as Ndiswrapper is most likely the
|>most commonly used driver in linux-wireless.
|
|
| ndiswrapper-utils will be available on the Hoary installation CD (it
should
| appear on the next daily install CD).  That said, it is far from being the
| most commonly used driver for wireless devices; indeed a wide variety of
| wireless hardware works out of the box with Ubuntu.


The other issue with ndiswrapper at install time is that it is useless
without the actual NDIS Windows driver -- I can't see Ubuntu shipping
any reasonable subset of those!  Or would you plan to make the user put
the correct driver onto a floppy before install?

Tres.
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