<div>Actually, I've had no problems with ndiswrapper in the current version of Ubuntu (7.04) - installation etc is painless, although it was flaky in previous distributions. </div>
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<div>And yes, I know it's my fault for not checking the chipset of the wireless card I picked up, and I therefore have to use a windows binary blob. Next time I need a wireless card it will have a natively-supported intel chipset I promise (if I can work out from the product notes what chipset I'm actually buying of course! I don't understand why suppliers are so cagey about the provenance of wireless chipsets, they're not like that about almost everything else...)
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<div>Pete<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 31/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel P. Berrange</b> <<a href="mailto:dan@berrange.com">dan@berrange.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:41:06PM +0100, Panos Savvas wrote:<br>> > installed Fedora 6 on my Intel Mac Mini & wireless works just fine if you
<br>> > use madwifi - i just installed it from <a href="http://rpm.livna.org">rpm.livna.org</a> YUM repository. There<br>> > should be no need to go anywhere nere the nsdiswrapper crap.<br>><br>> Maybe fedore 6 is more bleeding edge than ubuntu :)
<br>> My macs wireless is not supported in madwifi 0.93 and 0.94 is not released<br>> and not in debian/ubuntu repositories, so building 0.94 seems to be my only<br>> choice or wait for 0.94 to be released.<br>> I hear reports of other mac's wireless just working. I think the chipset
<br>> changed aruond nov 2006 which might explain it as mine is feb 07. When did<br>> you get your mac?<br><br>End of Jan 07, but I'm in the US, so its possible they have a different<br>spec'd chip in the UK or something. I'm using
<br><br> madwifi-0.9.3.1-1.lvn6.i386.rpm<br><br>In mine, along with NetworkManager and its quite happy.<br><br>> > The only issue I had was setting up Xorg config - that was only a problem<br>> > for me though because I was connecting to a LCD TV
<br>><br>> Is this mac specific do you think? I can run ubuntu on my thinkpad to a LCD<br>> TV and the only conf I needed to do was add the higher resolution to<br>> xorg.conf. I had to do this also on my macbook.
<br><br>Yeah, pretty sure its the fault of my TV, rather than the graphics card<br>or driver. There's no much you can do if the TV returns no EDID timing<br>data except fallback to some crappy 'standard' vesa resolution rather
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