[Gllug] ndiswrapper help

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 18:51 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Sat 03 May, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > 
> > I hate the idea of using ndiswrapper, but the poor performance of the
> > rt2x00pci driver is making me seriously consider it.
> > 
> > But when I use ndiswrapper it says it detects the hardware and
> > KWifiManager even says it can scan for my AP, but it refuses to connect,
> > dhcp requests simply time out.
> > 
> > Any clues to some easy fixes?
> > 
> 
>    Insist on hardware with good Linux drivers?
> 

The sort of response that does so much to drive Linux on to the
desktop :)

Actually, back about 16 or 17 kernel subversions ago this hardware did
have good drivers. Somewhere in the teens it started to go wrong.

Under many eyes all bugs are shallow, but you need the eyes...

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