I think it's very unlikely that the Fedora sources for this driver depend on the 2.6.25 kernel for anything - the driver broke in compilation following changes in 2.6.24 and I assume that's why it disappeared from Hardy suddenly. I'm not sure exactly which sources they are using in Fedora (I would guess ones from http://rtl- wifi.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page) but you can get a patched version of the OEM sources from my homepage (http://www.willdaniels.co.uk/blog /tech-stuff) which compile and work on Hardy (see also bug #196285). I could never get the 64-bit Windows drivers to work with ndiswrapper, so for 64-bit users, this, or the newer rtl-wifi project, are probably the only options.
However, to use either of these sources, you need to fuss about removing the existing ieee80211 stack from Hardy etc. which a lot of people are going to have trouble with, not to mention having to manually configure wpa_supplicant for WPA. I'll wait and see if any "official" remedy is forthcoming, but if not I could look into building a replacement linux- ubuntu-modules package containing this driver, so that it would be no more trouble than adding a PPA software source. And if I get time, I might also take a crack at adding WEXT-18 support so that WPA works out of the box, but I'm not really the best person to be doing this stuff (meaning I probably have less than half a clue about it) so I'm hoping someone more familiar with writing drivers and wireless hardware generally will jump in and save the day :D -- rtl8185 freezes on connect to network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152527 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
