From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Mike Marchywka <marchywka@hotmail.com>
Cc: netrolller.3d@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I need a card that works reasonably easily with Debain- reccs?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:33:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2F9534.8020908@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU113-W10113EE534A08128E43979BE820@phx.gbl>
On 12/21/2009 08:51 AM, Mike Marchywka wrote:
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>
>
> Thanks.
> As near as I can tell from the driver files it should be a netgear WG311v3
> 802.11g. May be a card mismatch but I'd have to pull machine apart to check.
>
> Are there known issues with ndiswrapper or I shouldn't even ask here? LOL.
>
> If there are known easy/difficult cards on a faq/list somewhere I thought that
> would help as driver support seems to be a big issue.
Before you rip the machine apart, use lsusb or 'lspci -nn' to get the
USB or PCI IDs for the device.
Most of us saw far too many Windows Blue Screens of Death to allow any
Windows code unchecked access to the inner rings of Linux, which is
exactly what ndiswrapper does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-21 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-21 12:49 I need a card that works reasonably easily with Debain- reccs? Mike Marchywka
2009-12-21 14:14 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-12-21 14:51 ` Mike Marchywka
2009-12-21 15:04 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-12-21 15:33 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2009-12-21 22:29 ` Mike Marchywka
2009-12-24 11:48 ` Julian Calaby
2009-12-24 12:29 ` Mike Marchywka
2009-12-24 13:14 ` Julian Calaby
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