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Revision as of 00:01, 1 October 2005
Contents
Usage of the IBM 11 a/b/g adapter with ndiswrapper:
Because I had massive problems getting the madwifi driver running on kernel 2.6.13 I gave ndiswrapper a try - with impressive success:
Reference system
- Thinkpad T41p 2373-GHG
- Kernel 2.6.13
- Ndiswrapper 1.2
- 802.11bg WLAN Mini PCI Express adapter software v 4.1.102.1095
Advantages of Ndiswrapper
- full power management support (madwifi has no powermanagement support)
- connection to access points establishes fast (madwifi has problems here / especially with dhcp)
There are also some drawbacks of Ndiswrapper against madwifi. Some features that madwifi allready provides are missing in ndiswrapper.
Installation instructions
Note: You can also install the driver from an existing windows system. Mount your windows partition and locate the *.INF file of the windows driver: find -name NET5211.INF
