On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 05:18:34PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005, Steven Stern wrote: > > Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 May 2005, Steven Stern wrote: > > >>Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >>>On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 10:03 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > > >>>>I've followed the standard recipe for installing ndiswrapper and > > >>>>activating the D-Link DWL G510 card. > > >>> > > >>>you're probably better of not using ndiswrapper.. kernel people might > > >>>actually care about bugs you report then :) > > >> > > >>I'd love to not use it, but I can't find anything that tells me how to > > >>use the existing wireless network card without it. If you have any > > >>useful suggestions, I'm interested. > > > > > > Is it a G510 revision A, or a G510 revision B? > > > > It's a Revision B. > > Revision B cards appear to use the Atheros chipset, which has drivers for linux > that work quite well: > > http://madwifi.sf.net > > The drivers there you'll have to compile yourself, since they are not in the > kernel (and won't be, since they use some non-open-source binary bits). > > Alternatively, you could grab an RPM and rebuild the RPM (since the kernel > module must match the running kernel): > > http://dl.atrpms.net/production/sources/fedora-3-i386/atrpms/madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc3.at.src.rpm There are also packages for FC4t3 and rawhide under http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/ ATrpms is officially tracking rawhide since FC4t3 :) Currently packages for 1286, 1287, 1290 are up and for 1303 are being uploaded. If you point to the fc4 repo, you can use yum install madwifi-kmdl-`uname -r` madwifi and you'll have the bits installed. > As root, do: > > 1) rpm -Uhv /path/to/madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc3.at.src.rpm > 2) cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS > 3) rpmbuild -ba madwifi.spec > 4) cd ../RPMS/i386 > 5) rpm -Uhv madwifi*.rpm > > Reboot. > > Dan > -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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