Which PCI Wireless card

[Rick Stevens]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 04:56, Nicholas Comino wrote:
> 
> 
>>That's a PCMCIA card (not PCI), will ndiswrapper result in pretty much the 
>>same driver for the dwl-G520+??
>>
>>Is that wireless driver solution as good as it gets?
> 
> 
> The real trick with any wireless card is to sort out which chip set the
> card uses.  Also don't assume that two of the same model card has the
> same chip set, check that they are the same versions.  Vendors will use
> different chip sets on the same model cards and slap a version number on
> that denotes the change.  This usually means you have to use different
> drivers.
> 
> There are native drivers available for some chip sets like Atheros and
> Prism chip sets.  Others you have to use ndiswrapper which lets you use
> the windows drivers for those chips sets (broadcom is an example).
> 
> So figure out which chip set the card uses then find the appropriate
> driver for that chipset.

Also be aware that ndiswrapper now requires a minor kernel patch (with
kernels 2.6.9-1.724 and later) in order to compile.

If the kernel gang is listening, is there a reason you removed

	EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_nice);

from kernel/sched.c?  That's what ndiswrapper wants (and one of the
reasons I asked about rebuilding modules and having them so darned big).
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