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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Hello again.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">It may look as if I'm
talking with myself here, but the truth is that I got several replies
in private, again. This time the word was that NdisWrapper should be
the last resource. So now I get it: I didn't ask a stupid question. I
wanted to discuss shrimp salad recipes in a synagogue. Many of you make
them at home, but nobody wants to admit that openly. ;)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">So let's clam down
about this, OK? NdisWrapper isn't against open source drivers, since
it's a hack solution which can never install automatically: It requires
finding the Windows files by hand. So for a distribution, only native
drivers are to choose. But as an ad-hoc solution, it's fantastic. For
those who want their computers working, that is.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Anyhow, thanks to those
who tried to help. As I implied earlier, I don't really know why I
began messing with wireless, since I don't have any use of it right
now. The interesting issue for me was that a catch-all solution exists,
even if it pollutes the kernel with yuck-yuck proprietary code.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">So, to wrap this little
saga up, I detail my own experience. Short version: It was easy.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">First, I tried "yum
install ndiswrapper". Was that optimistic, or what? Not in Red Hat's
repositories, it wasn't.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">So I downloaded a
tarball from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/</a> (that's the
way I really like it).</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">And I ran "yum install
kernel-devel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686" (just "kernel-devel" would be enough
for those who are ready to upgrade their kernel at the same time).
Would you believe that I ran a computer without its kernel sources on
it?</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">And then simply "make"
from the project's home directory. And "make install" as root. No,
there was no autoconfigure.<br>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">And then</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">ndiswrapper -i
Rt2500.inf</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">And the driver was
installed:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">[root@rouge ~]#
ndiswrapper -l<br>
rt2500 : driver installed<br>
device (1814:0201) present (alternate driver: rt2500pci)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Are these guys nice or
what? They actually tell me that I shouldn't need to work with their
utility (assuming that the real driver is OK, which it isn't).<br>
</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">I should mention, that
the card is a RaLink RT2500, which has drivers with several branches.
(one of which was loaded automatically from the very beginning).
There's also an official driver from Edimax. So odds are, that I would
get the thing working if I cared to try which one works. But really,
that wasn't the point.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Thank you all, again.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"> Eli<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Eli Billauer wrote:</p>
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Hello again,<br>
<br>
For the first time ever, I got several replies in private, and only one
on-list. I think that means "you asked a stupid question, but I
wouldn't like to embarrass you in front of everyone".<br>
<br>
So thanks to those who replied.<br>
<br>
And I suppose I'll read the HOWTO and get the thingy working. Unless
someone else thinks this is an interesting topic.<br>
<br>
Eli<br>
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