ndiswrapper
Spring is here, the sun shines, it is warm! What could be better than to sit with the laptop on the balcony and a bit of fresh air to work? Ok, a lot, but that would be ever a step forward to increase the well-being. Homework is thus certainly a little more pleasant, and the would you urgently needed!
have I thought to myself this week and I finally bought an access point with integrated router (ok, there were also other reasons). Easy to set up worked, but not on the notebook.
My notebook has an integrated Wi-Fi chip, but one that can not be supported at all. Luckily, there indeed ndiswrapper I thought. Yet so simple turned out to not do this:
I just could not connect to AP! "Iwlist wlan0 scan" showed no AP, I also could not set the ESSID. I have tried several kernel versions without success. According to some sources from the Web but it must be possible. First I wanted to try it with Knoppix 3.7, but that did not start of course ("loading linux24.tgz ......" or something like that). Some users, however, have managed to Debian, so I simply installed Debian on a test partition. The whole repeated - it works!
A sense of achievement that is depressing! On the one hand, it's works great if, on the other hand, it would mean so that the standard Debian kernel is better than my locally compiled ... Well, it seemed, however, to lie at the patches that were in Debian kernels. I dannach the Debian kernel copied to my system and then compiled, and lo and behold it works! Some are
probably thinking, how joy may have in Windows driver to attach to the kernel. Well, it certainly is not a clean solution, but I've got the better-than-nothing attitude:) In a way, ndiswrapper is already ne good thing. And so as an interim solution (until you have a Wlanadapter also works with Linux) it is quite ok!
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