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28 Dec 2007, 9:09 pm

This thread is a little long, so I pasted it here instead. Please help Linux user's especially ones with wireless experience other than ndiswrapper.

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29 Dec 2007, 9:01 am

A quick pointer: Windows Vista drivers do not work with ndiswrapper. You'll need to find a Windows XP driver if you want to go down that path.

One pain with ndiswrapper is that it doesn't seem to survive suspend/resume cycles. Rather annoying too (I'm stuck using it with an Atheros AR5007EG card).


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29 Dec 2007, 9:54 am

Hendikins wrote:
A quick pointer: Windows Vista drivers do not work with ndiswrapper. You'll need to find a Windows XP driver if you want to go down that path.


I found that out from experience.

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One pain with ndiswrapper is that it doesn't seem to survive suspend/resume cycles. Rather annoying too (I'm stuck using it with an Atheros AR5007EG card).


What do you mean by "survive suspend/resume cycles"

I'm asking for help with the native Linux driver, not ndiswrapper.



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30 Dec 2007, 7:10 am

moo_cow wrote:
What do you mean by "survive suspend/resume cycles"


Using the Suspend to RAM (Sleep) or Suspend to Disk (Hibernate) functions on a laptop.

moo_cow wrote:
I'm asking for help with the native Linux driver, not ndiswrapper.


Well, all I can suggest is asking on the Ubuntu forums, there is probably some package you can install with a precompiled kernel module.


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30 Dec 2007, 10:39 am

I've already asked on Ubuntu forums as well as Linuxquestions.org and 2 mailing lists.