launchpad.net — The first version of Auto-NDISwrapper helps you out to setting up your wireless card in Linux in the case that there is no native or free driver available for it. Although not a pretty solution NDISwrapper has been helping out the poor people who's wireless cards aren't supported in Linux. Now things are a little bit easier. Get it while it's hot!
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strangemanJul 16, 2008
Atheros is natively supported so it would be nonsense to install the Windows drivers (which usually provide less stable connections).
cliffyboroJul 16, 2008
Here here!!
epguiJul 16, 2008
Very very very limited connexion range and unstable connexion on my compaq presario v2575ca using this... I've switched back to ethernet since i've switched from windows =P
bpoteatJul 16, 2008
"This program automatically looks at what Wi-Fi card you have, it disables any wireless driver currently installed, fetches the correct Windows driver from the Internet and installs it with NDISwrapper."Am I misreading this or is there a bit of a catch-22 thrown in there?
randaiiJul 16, 2008
I hope its default in Fedora
idiotonuniJul 19, 2008
Am I the only one that sees the flaw in it? You need to be connected to the internet to do it. If your wireless card is not working how are you going to connect to the internet?
wiresjrJul 22, 2008
Hear where?
soulinetherJul 28, 2008
It'll probably be available in Ubuntu 8.10's repositories (it's in Launchpad right?) (though not default) and, knowing Fedora's much less lax policy (from what I remember when I last used it), probably not as easy to obtain in Fedora as in Ubuntu..
soulinetherJul 28, 2008
Though ndiswrapper is good for the general advancement/adoption of GNU/Linux, it slows down its free/open source aspect by depending upon proprietary drivers instead of encouraging the creation of free/open source alternatives.So.. while ndiswrapper reinforces (temporarily) the tether of FOSS GNU/Linux to proprietary drivers, compiz-fusion and desktop effects help make Linux more appealing without harming the freeness and open source... ness.Plus, DontThinkSo is right. They can even be some of the same programmers with the same talents, but the fact is ndiswrapper and compiz-fusion are two different projects - to each a developer would spend a different or equal amount of time on. And if open source software is developed at least partly for selfish interests (aside from those who are actually paid to work on different projects), you can imagine that the developers of compiz-fusion would want to have new, well-optimized and gnarly effects on their desktop and are thus more motivated to write code for their project than the developers of ndiswrapper, who themselves are already reaping all the benefits of being able to use Windows drivers to use their wireless card, except for those among them who perform frequent installs/reinstalls.Yeah yeah, some sweeping generalizations, and indeed there are people who are very philanthropic in their coding, so .. it's not all bad. On the surface/in general, I do agree with you culbeda, but... it'd be cooler to see a release of like functional open source drivers for 2 wireless cards than this. Oh well, I guess we gotta take this as we get it - it is free after all :D