Mark Knecht: > Following along in the spirit of your response I don't even see > version 1.23 so I've tried installing the newest masked version, > even though I expect this failed on your machine: > > Sector9 ~ # eix -I ndiswrapper > * net-wireless/ndiswrapper > Available versions: 1.2-r1 1.25 1.26 1.28 1.29 > Installed: 1.29 > Homepage: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ > Description: Wrapper for using Windows drivers for > some wireless cards
This is why I now keep two Gentoo root partitions, "stable" and "testing": in "stable" there is a fully working system, in "testing" I.... update and look at what happens ;-) > From the command line it appears that the newest version of > ndiswrapper is suggesting I can now use a Linux driver. I have no > idea how to actually do that though. > > Sector9 ~ # ndiswrapper -l > installed drivers: > neta3ab driver installed, hardware (168C:001A) present > (alternate driver: ath_pci) > Sector9 ~ # > [....] > Since I cannot get ndiswrapper working how would I go about getting > ath_pci to work? I'd check Stroller's advice ;-) You could also look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Wireless http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:Hardware#Wireless http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
