Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755662AbYK0Mka (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:40:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752177AbYK0MkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:40:22 -0500 Received: from mail.bitdefender.com ([91.199.104.2]:53696 "EHLO mail.bitdefender.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751045AbYK0MkV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:40:21 -0500 From: Mihai =?utf-8?q?Don=C8=9Bu?= Organization: Home To: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: ndiswrapper 1.54-2.6.27 released Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:40:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <46697.166.70.238.44.1227679338.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <492DE3BD.9010802@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <492DE3BD.9010802@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811271440.15661.mihai.dontu@gmail.com> X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender qmail 3.0.0 on mail.bitdefender.com, sigver: 7.22124 X-BitDefender-Spam: No (7) X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: v1, build 2.7.20.56845, bayes score: 500(0), pbayes score: 241(7), neunet score: 0(0), flags: [VALID_REPLY], total: 7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1455 Lines: 33 On Thursday 27 November 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: > jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: > > ndiswrapper with the 2.6.27 breakage corrected. The current maintainers > > have not put out a release for 2.6.27 or later kernels, so I went ahead > > and fixed it for 2.6.27. > > > > ftp://ftp.wolfmountaingroup.org/pub/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.54-2.6.27.7 > >.tar.gz > > > > Linux wireless drivers still do not work on most of my laptops and USB > > wireless devices due to lack of firmware drivers and other problems with > > native Linux wireless. Anyone else with busted laptop wireless who need > > ndiswrapper might as well be able to get it since the maintainers have > > not posted recent releases for recent kernels. > > What devices are there left these days that are still not working with > native drivers? Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01) The driver works only if I don't subject it to high traffic. If I begin a large transfer (like a DVD ISO) the card looses the connection with the AP and behaves erratically in a way that interferes with my wireless mouse (I have to unplug the mouse receiver and plug it back in several times, which is very annoying). -- Mihai Donțu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/